Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

Hamlet asked the same: Life is suffering. Hamlet and the Buddha knew that well ... At the start of both The White Lotus and ...

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Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

In the second plot, King Lear attempts to divide his kingdom among his daughters ... When Edgar reunites with Gloucester, his eyes fill with tears as he witnesses his father’s physical suffering.