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“Lear” Outdoor Shakespeare in 90 Minutes | Yerba Buena Gardens
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Yerba Buena Gardens (Esplanade) | 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025
The 2025 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 10, 2025 with La Santa Cecilia to kick off its 25th Anniversary Season.
“Lear” is Shakespeare’s King Lear with the various locales in the park serving as the playing area. Shakespeare’s play is reduced to ninety minutes and traverses the plains of Yerba Buena Gardens as it tells the exciting and heart-breaking story of one man’s attempt to divide his kingdom and his family’s gut-wrenching struggle for power and love. This is not a musical, it is not farce, it is Lear! – with Shakespeare’s original text – performed like you’ve never seen it before.
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Cost: FREE
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