ABORIGINAL performer Tom E. Lewis will play King Lear at the Malthouse Theatre next year in an adaptation of Shakespeare's classic that Lewis has been working on with former Malthouse director ...

"This is a tragedy; it's like King Lear," Lewis says. More than three years later, and 3500km down the road at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, Kantor looks back and says that was the defining ...

Originally produced by the Malthouse during the 2013 Melbourne Festival, The Shadow King reimagines Lear, played by co-creator and Indigenous actor Tom E Lewis, as the head of a feuding Indigenous ...

The announcement comes as a pleasant send-off for Malthouse’s outgoing artistic ... taking on the international stage.” The Shadow King has been acclaimed as one of the finest Shakespeare ...

Shakespeare’s King Lear has been adapted countless ... In this adaptation for the Malthouse Theatre, Lear is an indigenous Australian and his kingdom is the outback. In the context of Aboriginal ...