Leah's Boys

"FROM STEEL MAGNOLIA TO IRON LADY" This powerful retelling of Shakespeare's KING LEAR takes place in the American South during the turbulent 1960s. Leah Gunter is about to hand over the reins of the family's industrial empire to her three sons, Brett, Hal and George. Brett and Hal know the business backwards, but it is George, Leah's favourite whom she plans to start as her PA and let him slip into her place over his brothers. This is the moment George has been dreading all his life - he's already got his own very different life going in New York. Leah expects total obedience; she controls the purse-strings. Meanwhile Hal's wife has stumbled on the truth about George's double-life, which she plans to use now to destroy him. LEAH'S BOYS retells the story of Shakepeare's enigmatic tragedy of power and betrayal in a modern setting with the full dramatic impact of the original.