Tim Crouch's new play is about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator; it is a story of hope, violence, and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, and turn to your neighbor.

-It's a very powerful piece indeed.---The Stage

The latest installment in Tim Crouch's acclaimed family-friendly series of William Shakespeare plays explored through the eyes of minor characters. Here, it's Julius Caesar from the perspective of a lowly poet, a man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong name, while history thunders past.

And that's the moment when I leave. The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail. This precise moment here, look, see with your ears. The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the interval. In his new solo work, playwright Tim Crouch draws on ideas of virtual reality to send the Fool back to the future of the play that he left. Back to a world without moral leadership or integrity; a world where wealth covers vice; where the poor are dehumanised; where the jokes fall flat; where live art has become the privilege of the...