Falk Richter gives Shakespeare's King Lear a contemporary meta-perspective at Dramaten in Stockholm

King Lear is a multi-layered story of power, inheritance, generational clashes and a kingdom cast into chaos. In Falk Richter's version, the play also has a meta-perspective with a parallel story about a conflict-ridden theater production of King Lear.

-King Lear is one of the world's best plays with fascinating characters that I now will explore on stage. It is so exciting to be back at Dramaten and to realize my adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy. I am very impressed with how the Dramaten ensemble takes on the challenge, says Falk Richter.

- It is a heavy and challenging role and now also in an interesting adaptation by Falk Richter. It is of course also fun to play in King Lear on the same stage again. I played in Ingmar Bergman's production in 1984, says Peter Andersson.

Falk Richter is one of Europe's most well-known playwrights and directors who currently works at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. At Dramaten, he has staged Safe during the Bergman Festival in 2018 and I am Europe in a European theater collaboration in 2019.

Peter Andersson is a well known Swedish actor who, among many other films, played one of the leading roles in the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. He also had a role in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit an action-thriller from 2014 direced by Kenneth Branagh.   

Cast: Peter Andersson, Erik Ehn, Victoria Dyrstad, Electra Hallman, Karin Franz Körlof, Magnus Roosmann, Björn Elgerd, Alexander Salzberger, Ana Gil de Melo Nascimento and Rasmus Luthander.