📅 Event: King Lear – Joshua Tree Shakespeare Festival | Theatre Under the Stars
📍 Wind Walkers Medicine Wheel, Joshua Tree
🗓 May 23 – June 1 (Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM | Sundays at 2:30 PM)
🎟 Limited Seating: Only 25 seats per show! ($25 per ticket)
Join us for a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience as the Joshua Tree Shakespeare Festival presents King Lear under the vast desert sky! This intimate, open-air performance at Wind Walkers Medicine Wheel will transport you into one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies—where power, loyalty, and madness collide.
We are raising funds to support fair wages for our incredible cast and crew through Zeffy. Donate using the link here:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundraising/e7bf16a4-4d27-4bc4-bb69-df2ac7576936?isPreview=true&isOnboarding=false&fbclid=IwY2xjawJENUxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQ01-iqCD3_xY18anRgUeb6xAVfb7wkySm0DiNA_JNUGOsVvFlscbPEyeA_aem_b7V79f7JagxZoRuHg4HN7Q or on our main page. A donation DOES NOT equate to a ticket for the show.
All ticket sale proceeds benefit the Native American Spiritual Center and there very worthy cause. Please visit there website here:
https://www.windwalkersmedicinewheel.com/ to learn all about who they are and what they do.
🎭 TICKETS are available through the Wind Walkers website. Link above. EXTREMELY LIMITED SEATING! 25 SEAT PER SHOW! Follow the event page for updates regarding ticket sales!
🎭 CAST & CHARACTERS
👑 King Lear – Kurt Schauppner
💔 Cordelia – Bobbie Breckenridge
🦊 The Fool – Cooki Bilsborough
🔪 Goneril & Regan – Liz Wessel & Molly Katelbach
⚔ Edmund & Edgar – Malcolm Stanley-Wolfe & Andrew Catlin
👀 Gloucester – Kevin Hayles
⚖ Kent – Jered Palmer
🏰 Duke of Albany – Cris Matthews
🏰 Duke of Cornwall – Brian Hennessy
Oswald-Booker Harrap
🎬 CREATIVE TEAM & CREW
🎭 Director – Charlie E. Walker
📋 Stage Manager – TBA
👗 Costume Designer – Liz Wessel
⚔ Stage Combat Choreographer – Krystofer Do
🔹 SYNOPSIS:
Aging, power, and betrayal collide in King Lear, Shakespeare’s heart-wrenching exploration of family, loyalty, and the fragility of the human mind.
As King Lear approaches the end of his reign, he seeks to divide his kingdom among his three daughters—but his fatal desire for flattery blinds him to true love.
He casts out his youngest, Cordelia, the only one who loves him unconditionally, while his elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, scheme for control. As Lear’s mind unravels and he is cast into the wilderness, he faces the devastating realities of aging, isolation, and regret.
In a world where ambition tears families apart, King Lear is a powerful reflection on the bonds that hold us together—and the betrayals that break them. Witness Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy under the vast Joshua Tree sky, where nature itself mirrors the storm raging within a father’s shattered heart.
🌟 WHY ATTEND?
✨ Experience Shakespeare in a breathtaking desert setting.
🎶 Live music and immersive staging.
💙 Support Indigenous cultural spaces and fair wages for artists.
🎟 Extremely limited seating—reserve your spot now!
Join us and witness the power of King Lear beneath the stars—this is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before! ✨ #KingLearJT #ShakespeareUnderTheStars #JoshuaTreeShakespeareFestival
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