2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Cannonball/Philadelphia Theatre Company Special Presentation Text and Dramaturgy Cohort Selection

Caribbean King is a de-colonial, trans-gressive, adaptive confrontation with Shakespeare’s King Lear in which Cord(elia) fights to survive against a catastrophic hurricane barreling towards his family’s resort, and his hotelier father’s unshakeable belief that he is a daughter, not a son. A love letter to found family and queer community building, the play features a chorus of drag performers who play the role of the hurricane, and has Black, Queer, Diasporic liberation at the eye of its storm.

The Proscenium at The Drake

Buy tickets at https://phillyfringe.org/events/caribbean-king/