The Yiddish Queen Lear

Author(s): Julia Pascal
Russian-born New Yorker, Esther Laranovska, gives her Yiddish theatre business to her daughters. Two of them cast her out on to the streets. She starts a new Yiddish Theatre of the Streets, which fails. In despair, she goes to France but is caught by the Nazis on the Swiss French border.
Format: Full-length play

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Southwark Playhouse, London.
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
Publisher:

Oberon Books, 2001.

Production Rights Holder:

United Agents, London.

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