What Is The Parallel Dysfunctional Families In King Lear

My initial reading of King Lear really struck me with the themes of familial ties and the distinctions between power and the lack there of. The entire play revolves around two parallel dysfunctional families, whose dysfunction lies in their power struggles. The parallel comes from the power dynamic between fathers handing down their power to some, but not all, of their children. Because this dynamic of family plays such an important theme in this play, I feel like the staging and set of this show should reflect that.
There are two very distinct families, that of King Lear and that of Gloucester: I think it would be important to show there a very obvious parallel draw to the families by creating two levels in the stage. The back of the stage would be raised and would allow space for the Gloucesters to have their story played out up against the Lear family who would play on the larger bottom pit area. This draw is important because both families are in conflict over the handing down of power. It is not just that this a family ordeal,
These characters are just as powerless as the audience that watches them, so they would play their lines as downstage and close to the audience as possible. This would draw the divide in the family and those who hold power and those who do not. When Gloucester losses his power they would come nearer to the end of the stage as well, and in return Edmund who gains power over his father, would be able to go upstage. Likewise, when Goneril and Regan tell their father he must limit his knights, this is another power move. The only power Lear has left is his knights, and his daughters wish to strip him of that. This would move Lear further downstage. The entire show is a power struggle, not only within families, but the within an entire kingdom. This staging would allow audiences to visually see that struggle in