Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel

<p><i>And that’s the moment when I leave.</i><br><i>The moment when the jokes fail us. When </i><i>I fail. I fail.</i><br><i>This precise moment here, look, see with </i><i>your ears.</i><br><br>The Fool leaves <i>King Lear</i> before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the interval.<br><br>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 few.<br><br><i>Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel</i> is a daringly unaccommodating piece of theatre that switches between scathingly funny stand-up and an audacious act of collective imagining. <i>King Lear</i> meets stand-up meets the metaverse. Crouch’s previous celebrated works include <i>An Oak Tree, The Author, Adler & Gibb, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation</i>, and <i>Beginners</i>.<br><br>This edition was published to coincide with the production at The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in August 2022.</p>