Christopher Moore's bestselling novel – "a comic counter‑narrative, a gleefully irreverent tale running parallel to the tragedy we think we know" (Curtain Up!) – comes to life in this new adaptation by the co-artistic director of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Pocket – King Lear's wise-cracking, string-pulling, truth-telling Fool – hysterically retells Shakespeare's tragedy and uncovers the wickedly comic palace intrigue that involves devious daughters, treasonous nobles, treacherous bastards, invading armies, cackling witches, and a ghost (there's always a bloody ghost).

A swashbuckling tale of love and redemption, "Fool" is a bawdy interrogation of who deserves redemption, whose stories get enshrined in literature, and, above all, the restoration of poor doomed Cordelia.