LEAR 2020 happens in a future when AI serves mankind as a universal recording system. In this future, anyone's mind can survive after death as an electronic facsimile of itself, along with that of others, in a kind of collective electronic assemblage popularly called "Audience." Synched with its body at birth, one’s facsimile continues to "see" the world of the living after death, both indirectly through audience monitors and directly in its AI Courthouses, much as traditional theater viewers watch a play. While granted coterminously to all at death, many people "audition" for early inclusion in "Audience"--short of death--before what is popularly called the "AI Court." In this court (there are many worldwide) people present their own worthiness for early admittance to Audience by presenting their best artistic achievements before nine AI justices, each designed to be wise, omniscient, and humane--and excellent drama critics. Such auditions then presumably "entertain" Audience members indefinitely, both in audition before the court and ever after. In this play Lear is a musician who has risen in life to become a famous music and play producer with many stars under contract to him; he has, besides an adoring public, three daughters, many old friends, and a fool.