“The tragedy of King Lear is an abbreviated encyclopaedia of what it is to be human. The highest and lowliest of passions; the brightest forms of love and the darkest forms of selfishness; all our desires and fears; what we dream of and what stalks us in our nightmares; all humanity is found within the microcosm Shakespeare creates in his most brilliant work.

The tragedy of King Lear is also an abbreviated encyclopaedia of the theatre. It contains all genres and all styles. It encloses all ages of stage art, those before Shakespeare and those that came after, from the Greeks to tomorrow, because Shakespeare both inherits everything and anticipates everything, and never more masterfully than here, offering a collection of extraordinary characters and some of the best scenes ever written for theatre. In a piece of work like this, you must enter it as into a temple. My version has tried, humbly, to nourish its richness and wealth, bringing it closer to the contemporary spectator - closer without diminishing it. I truly hope I’ve managed to do so. I have always written in dialogue with Gerardo Vera and I’m convinced that this King Lear will more than confirm the depth that he has achieved as a stage director.” Juan Mayorga