<p>Set seven years before <i>King Lear</i>, <i>Queen Goneril</i> centres the struggles of Lear's daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born leader. In Regan, a boundary pusher. And in Cordelia, a reluctant peacekeeper. As the three work to dismantle their individual constraints, a storm of inner reckoning begins to brew that reflects their deepest yearnings and mirrors our contemporary world.</p> <p>Whip smart and wide awake, <i>Queen Goneril</i> is another deliciously disruptive adaptation from Erin Shields. In her signature revisionist style, Shields investigates some of our most urgent feminist issues by reimagining the roles of women in classic texts--shifting them from subjects, objects, or witnesses to central figures of both their own lives and the story's narrative. <i>Queen Goneril</i> lays bare the challenges of maintaining authenticity while achieving authority--how we retain a strong sense of self while twisting around systems meant to make us play small. A compelling story about complicated characters struggling--the way we all struggle--to find their place in this world.</p>