The Shipment and Lear
by Young Jean Lee

The Shipment and Lear Book Cover
The Shipment and Lear Cover

Synopsis

In The Shipment, Lee provides a provocative look at African-American identity in our not-yet post-racial society.

The New York Times calls this take on cultural images of black America “a subversive, seriously funny new theatre piece… Ms. Lee wields sharp, offbeat humor to point up the clichés, distortions and absurdities” (Charles Isherwood, New York Times).

LEAR is Lee’s own version of Shakespeare’s tragedy, focusing on the king’s three daughters.

A production in which Lear himself never appears, LEAR is a “wacky blend of ‘To be or not to be,’ Beckett, and Pirandello…full of exhilarating, illuminating moments” (Village Voice).

Themes

Publication

Year Published
2010
ISBN 10
1559363568
ISBN 13
9781559363563
Print Length
96 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCCN
2010008790
LCC
PS3612.E228 S55 2010
DCC
812/.6
Print
The Shipment and Lear is a American black history play written by and published by Theatre Communications in New York, 2010. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781559363563 and an ISBN-10 of 1559363568.
Digital
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