Storyline

While shifting airports by bus in Africa, a group of passengers is driven to the middle of nowhere in the desert by the driver that is following a defective compass. They run out of gas and they reach a ghost village inhabited by a single man, Kanana. One passenger that has experience with desert gives five advices to the others to survive in the spot, among them to keep the spirit high, while he travels through the desert seeking for help. One intellectual in the stranded group suggests the performance of King Lear to keep the morale of the survivors. Along the days, while hope decreases, the tension increases among the survivors.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords

desert, tragedy, drunkenness, rehearsal, survival, stage play, isolation, carrot, interracial relationship, based on play, father son relationship, jealousy, kerosene, bus, stranded, village, urination, title in title, temper, suicide

Short Review

The King is Alive interweaves the madness, the foolhardiness, the greed and the ferocity of human nature that Shakespeare depicted so brilliantly in Lear back in 1606, and shatters us again and again with its insights made refreshed.

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