Now that the interior renovation works of the TNSJ have come to an end, we continue along our path on the shoulders of giants. From the heights of Rei Lear [King Lear], by William Shakespeare, we discern the curve of a post-Centenary time. On a brand-new stage, director Nuno Cardoso combines an evergreen classic, amplified by a new translation by António M. Feijó, with a cast that brings together actors from our almost resident company and others that once made history here, mingling times, memories and affections. As vast and powerful as the mind of its main character, Lear irradiates a sort of “cosmic anxiety”. Stanley Cavell, the author of Disowning Knowledge, one of the inaugural titles of Empilhadora, our new book collection, states that this play is “about the interpenetration and confusion of politics with love”, with “love wielding itself in gestures of power, power extending itself with claims of love”. By exchanging pure power for ambiguous love, Lear ushers in tragedy, which here takes on a ferociously political form. The consequences of this? Cavell tells us: “[P]olitics becomes private, and so vanishes, with power left to serve hatred”…