Crouch plays the Fool from Shakespeare's King Lear, the tragic king's comic foil and verbal sparring partner, who famously disappears less than halfway through the play. Here, he is revealed to have left because he's simply had enough and sits on stage wearing a virtual reality headset through which he supposedly views the performance that he has just left, which is happening in a much posher theatre, and describes it to the audience.

The playwright has said that he chose King Lear as his source text because it is set in a turbulent realm when governance is unravelling, something he sees as having widespread resonance in the contemporary era—and he felt a certain sympathy with the Fool's desire to simply leave.

The production looks at the role of human connection and of shared physical experiences like the theatre, compared to mediated digital experiences, by being both of those things at the same time. It was written during the pandemic and first performed in 2022. Unlike most of his plays, which usually percolate for years, Crouch says this one was written quickly.  It is a meditation on disappearance created during a time when theatre itself, as a performing art, had largely disappeared from the world. The absence of the play being described serves as a metaphor for the state of theatre and by extension of live performance generally.