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Queen Lear

08/16/2019

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1hr 24min

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Documentary

STORY

Shakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into 'Queen Lear' in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group. In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, traveling the dusty, dangerous roads to the farthest-flung mountain villages where there isn't even running water. On the road, their lives merge with the world of King Lear and become bound up with "the good and the bad", "the young and the old", "the rich and the poor", "the honest and the dishonest" of the play.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Behiye Yanık
  • Cennet Güneş
  • Ümmü Kurt

    Director

  • Pelin Esmer

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Sinefilm

    Production Countries

  • Turkey

LANGUAGES

  • Turkish

Cast

Behiye Yanık

Cennet Güneş

Ümmü Kurt

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