'Trump Lear'

Direct from New York, a hilarious one-man Shakespeare with timely political satire.

David Carl (Gary Busey does Hamlet) returns to the MAT in a hilarious one man show playing an actor names Carl David who evokes the wrath of the President as he creates a solo version of King Lear – Shakespeare’s tragic play of a ruler whose vanity tears his country apart.

“Actor and impersonator, Carl David, is being held without bail for performing his Trump-inspired version of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Carl David is forced to perform his King Lear to an unseen online audience of one, as the President restlessly watches remotely from a live and public feed. The stakes are high: if Trump likes Carl and his show, Carl lives. If not, Carl dies. But how can Carl get through a show where he has created a Lear based on Trump himself without offending the audience?”