The Jewish King Lear

A forceful and original paraphrase of Shakespeare, softened a little, in which Gordin creates complex roles and highly dramatic situations. The production is one of the theatre's successes, a moving show with a story that never dates, about family and the place of money. A Shakespearean story that, told in a Jewish key, reads more easily but carries the same lesson: you have to be mad or old to hand your fortune over to ungrateful children.