LEAR
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 14, 2010
Closed Feb 14, 2010
Opened Jan 14, 2010
Closed Feb 14, 2010
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http://www.sohorep.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Nothing can protect you from nothing. Following last season's hit, The Shipment, provocative playwright Young Jean Lee tackles her boldest work to date--a radical and moving response to King Lear. A Lear-less "Lear" about children turning their backs on their aging fathers, Lee's irreverent tragedy challenges our love of watching terrible things.
Please note, this show has been extended and the ticket price has increased to $40.00 for Regular Seating and $50.00 for Reserved Seating for the duration of the extansion.
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Described as a response to Shakespeare's King Lear, playwright/director Young Jean Lee's
LEAR, currently performing at Soho Rep, appropriates some of the characters of the original play (although not Lear himself) for a radically structured mediation on loss and on the selfishness beneath love in human nature. Thanks to stretches of textured poetic writing, the show's bizarre novelty, and the wow factor of David Evan Morris' set, the play steadfastly holds the audience's interest even if it's not always as thematically coherent or emotionally fulfilling as one would wish.
During the first hour of its 90-minute running time, the show sustains a pattern of alternating sometimes snarky, highl[...]