Two actors and 30 puppets will perform a unique version of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, “King Lear,” at 7 p.m. Saturday at Open Space for Arts & Community.

In 1974, husband and wife team Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller created their own theater company, The Independent Eye, to write and produce original and classic plays for performances staged across the nation and around the world. The duo have written 60 plays and revues as core repertory for Independent Eye as well as for other theater companies.

Performed within the confines of an aluminum cage, “King Lear” features Bishop as Lear and Fuller as the Fool, and is accompanied by Fuller’s original score — “a warm, inviting setting that offers some shelter against the storm.”

The storm refers to Lear’s obsessive response to his self-inflicted condition — loss of power, friendship, shelter, sanity and hope. The Fool torments Lear, orchestrates his story and finally becomes subsumed by Lear’s madness.

In addition to playing Lear and the Fool, Bishop and Fuller — who are master puppeteers as well as actors — operate 30, life-sized hand and finger puppets.

“Shakespeare is uniquely suited to puppetry because the stories are deeply metaphorical, and the medium allows shifts from realistic behavior to metaphor in startling ways,” Bishop said. “And puppets allow a broad gestural life that’s true to the Elizabethan style of acting and totally absent on the live-actor stage today.”

Tickets are $14 for general admission, $10 for students, and are sold at brownpapertickets.com and Vashon Bookshop.

The production is suitable for ages 13 and up.