How my production of King Lear with Sheep ended up generating more publicity than I ever imagined

Shakespeare is frequently staged, frequently adapted, yet rarely questioned. For the majority of directors, it seems enough just to successfully put on the play. If they are feeling really experimental, they might insert a pop song or two, an interpretive dance routine, add some class-A drugs, a barbecue, and/or set the action at the fish counter in Morrison’s. Though I’m sure that there is value in these things, they mostly leave me cold. Instead of changing the superficial aspects of the play, scenery, costume, and so on, I decided to put on a play where I would change the actors into something capable of consuming (literally) these things. This was the genesis of King Lear with Sheep.