Graeme King Lear

Graeme spends his days in bureaucratic drudgery, but at night he spends time with the poet Christopher Brennan, working on a new literary magazine that will change the face of Australian letters.

In the programme notes for this production, Barry Dickins wrote:

"Graeme King Lear is the spirit of artistic genius come down to earth in anyone's body to get them on with the work. Like some kind of mythical cattle-prod. Christopher Brennan lies exhausted in the gutter, bashing his brains against the syllables of poetry that belt him over the earhole and the rags and tatters of dreamthoughts that assail him from all sides. Lear or The Fool inhabits Brennan's soul and tries to get the work out for him, like a heart working in another's body, ticking away for you because you no longer can do the work. And what's the work? To ease the pain of living".