Gabriele Lavia, one of the greatest masters of the theatre, is the star and director of Re Lear, one of Shakespeare's masterpieces, which for over four hundred years has preserved the many facets of a time that is still relevant today.

The eternal tragedy of power, where the conflict between fathers and daughters and sons is played out in a story of fatherhood and inheritance, bursts onto the stage, traversed by a spectrum of passions, betrayals and the miseries of human existence. Written at the beginning of the 17th century, the text is based on the legend of Lear, king of Britain before it became part of the Roman Empire, whose story had already been told in chronicles, poems and sermons, but which Shakespeare immortalised thanks to a plurality of powerfully dramatic characters, which Lavia's direction enhances and illuminates through a large cast of 14 performers.
Lavia defines Re Lear as a story of loss: loss of reason, loss of the kingdom, loss of brotherhood. In his director's notes, he writes: 'All that remains is to live in a storm. But Lear's storm is the storm in his mind. The storm of the mind of humanity, the death of the man who has abandoned his Being. And now he lives his non-Being in the Storm of the mind, in the Storm that overwhelms him. And everyone is overwhelmed. Except the one who has suffered more than the others and can “be King” of suffering as a path to knowledge'.