Andrea Jiménez, ‘Kill the Father’ After a Repudiation and Triumph in the Theatre

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In 1606, William Shakespeare premiered The Tragedy of King Lear, most likely with Richard Burbage as the protagonist. In it he worked, among other things, filial love and repudiation. On April 24, 2024, Andrea Jiménez (Madrid, 38 years old) represented for the first time at the Teatro de la Abadía Casting Lear. Since then, some 90 actors have incarnated the crazy monarch in different scenarios in Spain. It is a requirement devised by Jiménez: in…