Yiddish Queen Lear
- Synopsis
- Stage video recording of Julia Pascal’s re-working of King Lear. Set in New York in the late 1930s, a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. In the first narrative scene actor-manager Esther Laranovska auditions young theatrical hopefuls by getting them to recite from Hamlet in Yiddish. The play moves on to examine the moment when Jewish East European and American cultures mix on the eve of the Holocaust.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- Apr 1999
- Duration
- 137 mins
Credits
- Writer
- Julia Pascal
- Cast
Ruth Posner Esther (Lear) Natasha Pollard Channele (Cordelia) Amanda Boxer Gail (Goneril) Anna Ziman Anton Blake Tim Levine
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Southwark Playhouse
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Plays
- Hamlet; King Lear
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Jewish Americans; Jews; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Auditions; Gender reversal
Notes
- Notes
- Performance script held at the Julie Pascal Archive, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.
- History
- The play opened at the Southwark Playhouse 20 April 1999.
Archive
- Name
V&A Theatre & Performance Collections: National Video Archive of Performance
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- Web
- http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/nvap/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7942 2697
- Fax
- 020 7471 9864
- Address
- Blythe House
23 Blythe Road
London
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How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Yiddish Queen Lear". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av70948 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)