• King Lear - Prospero Two fathers and their love for a woman, who is their own daughter, be her name Cordelia or Miranda.
  The tragedy of possession. Possession of a being, possession of a Kingdom... one unique fight!
  
  One of the two, Lear, pretends to renounce the Kingdom but cannot really let go of power: conflict, drama, and mindlessness...
  
  The other, Prospero, deposited by his brother, renounces his last power, that of magic, and forgives whilst Lear curses his daughters, themselves neither less nor more guilty than the Duke of Milan, who actually sent Prospero to exile.
  
  Two family dramas. Only among families does one know how to truly hate (or love, and such up to incest). Those two Princes, Lear - Prospero, are the very same character in this jolly bloody tragic-comical melodrama. A melodrama which, amidst the Atrides and Mishima's heroes, Molière's fathers and Wagner's Wotan, shows us the ridicule of power in all its strength and virility, saved at last by love and abnegation.

Maurice Béjart