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Article: Folksbiene's Yiddish 'Queen Lear'
Forward;  December 2, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Nahma Sandrow Forward 12-02-1994 Folksbiene's Yiddish `Queen Lear'. In a luxurious living room in turn-of-the-century ... tears more restrained. Gordin subtitled the play "The Jewish Queen Lear," and it is true that like Lear, Mirele cedes her power ...

Article: Theatre: On the Fringe Escape From Pterodactyl Island The ...
The Independent - London;  April 28, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... indeed would you stop off at Julia Pascal's The Yiddish Queen Lear. Pascal's decision to link the 20th-century persecution ... Gate 45' (0171-928 6363) to 1 May; `The Yiddish Queen Lear' (0171-620 3494) to 22 May

Article: Queen Lear? Why Not?
The Washington Post;  May 28, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Veteran actress Mikel Sarah Lambert won't soon forget getting the invitation to play Lear at the Washington Shakespeare Company. "{Director} Chris Henley called and said, `We're doing "Lear" at the end of the season,' " says Lambert, who plays Shakespeare's tragic king as a tempestuous queen. "And

Article: Yiddish Queen Lear
Jerusalem Post;  December 26, 1994 ;     518 words ...HELEN KAYE Jerusalem Post 12-26-1994 THIS was a Jewish contract, says Orna Porat. The actress met Israel Yiddish Theater artistic director Shmulik Atzmon in the foyer during intermission. Shmulik: "Nu! Don't you want to work here?" Orna: "Of course. Suggest something." Shmulik: "What about Mirale

Article: CROWNING QUEEN LEAR
The Boston Globe;  June 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Olympia Dukakis has played plenty of mothers in her 40 years of acting, from her Oscar-winning performance as the matriarch in "Moonstruck" to Amanda Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie." She raised three children of her own and nursed her mother when she was confined to a home for senior citizens.

Article: Black cat bonanza|Coal City woman collects ...
Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  October 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Vacca, bought her a set of small black cat figurines at the dime store. There ... their own pet at home, Silky the black cat. Gordon is a grandmother now. She still lives in Coal City with a black cat - this one's name is Bug - but ...

Poe's "The Black Cat" as psychobiography: some reflections ...
Studies in Short Fiction;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... August 1843, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" remains one of his most mystifying ... applicable to the unnamed narrator of "The Black Cat": Montresor reveals certain things ... suggestiveness, indicating that tales like "The Black Cat" "dramatize failures of various defenses ...