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Start: I love it here, Joseph. On the L...

Esther Laranovska

The Yiddish Queen Lear

Julia Pascal

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Four
Time & Place
The Cafe Royal, New York City, 1939
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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I love it here, Joseph. On the Lower East Side you look up and see all those tenements. Inside, men and women are talking. Or loving. Maybe the wife is preparing a chicken. Someone is playing piano. People are dancing. Or having a fight.

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End:

We’ll Americanize the Yiddish actors and the Yiddish public. A new culture full of hope and resistance and joy. That’s what we’ll do, Joseph. Isn’t that right? Isn’t that what we’re here for?

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Julia Pascal, The Yiddish Queen Lear, Jewish Quarterly, Volume 46, number 1, May 2013, pp.19.

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