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Article: Folksbiene's Yiddish 'Queen Lear'
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- December 2, 1994
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Nahma Sandrow
Forward
12-02-1994
Folksbiene's Yiddish `Queen Lear'.
In a luxurious living room in turn-of-the-century Russia, war rages around the samovar. A powerful matriarch named Mirele Efros knows she is losing control of the family business -- and the family -- to her wily daughter-in-law. When the young woman insolently appropriates Mirele's special footstool, Mirele fights back by sending for her jewelry box and ostentatiously resting her feet on diamonds and pearls. Shocking behavior in a domestic setting -- just the kind of highly theatrical moment that I love in the plays of Jacob Gordin.
By 1898, when he wrote "Mirele Efros," Gordin was a major figure on the Lower East Side. ...
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