King Lear

I believe King Lear's story is about power dynamics between domestic relationships. I created a sense of proximity between interior spaces. Some spaces interlock with some and the actors can partially see through to each rooms, just like a big family's home. The architecture at the start of the play has complexity and hidden areas, like the power King Lear has. As the plot reveals, the walls split until there are none, just like King Lear has nothing to hold on to, until he dies. The audiences may see there is a storm outside but the characters are oblivious until all the walls are lifted up. Nature, or dirt, creeps through and bury the map the audiences see in the very first scene towards the end.

The inspiration for its form came from Japanese patriarchal culture where men strongly holds the power. The "Nijiriguchi" or the "crawling-in entrance" to the tea house separate the outside environment. Anyone with any social status enters the house must be respectful to the host. No matter what happens in the story, this small entrance stays until King Lear loses himself in the process.