Victoria Crowe, Lost Lear
Victoria Crowe, one of Scotland's leading landscape and portrait painters, talks about a new exhibition of works that reflect over six decades of her artistic journey.
Len hears about Lost Lear, a moving and darkly comic remix of Shakespeare’s play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia, who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear. Using puppetry, projection and live video effects, the audience are landed in Joy’s world as layers of her past and present, fiction and reality, overlap and distort. The play is coming to Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre on Sunday and writer and director Dan Colley and Gus Harrower, a Dementia friendly engagement artist who will be taking part in a post-show discussion, tell Len more.
Artist Victoria Crowe talks about Decades, a powerful new exhibition of works that reflect over six decades of her artistic journey and celebrate her 80th year. It’s part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival and is on at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh from next week.
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- Wed 23 Jul 2025 15:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland