Yiddish Queen Lear + Woman on the Moon

Title: Yiddish Queen Lear + Woman on the Moon
Author: Pascal, Julia
Price: $32.95

New York in the late 1930's. A once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. A story of love, infidelity, betrayal and exile inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this new play with music examines the moment when Jewish East European and American cultures mix on the eve of the Holocaust. Pascal shows the clash and connections between two worlds in a vibrant, funny and tragic play. The Yiddish Queen Lear is a free reworking of Shakespeare and a homage to the lost world of Yiddish theatre. The language of the shtetl, given dramatic form in Eastern Europe and exported by emigrants to New York, gave voice to a rich and varied theatrical tradition until its culture was wiped out during the war. Pascal takes us on a whistlestop tour of the full range, from sparkling music-hall comedy and plaintive song to improvisation, while showing an endearing lack of reverence for her subject.

Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Publication date: 01/10/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781840022537
Publishing status: Last copy archived