Performed/co-written by
Deborah Leiser-Moore
Directed/co-written by
Meredith Rogers
Choreographed by
Sally Smith
Photo by
Meredith Rogers
55 minutes
no intermission
All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served.
This show is All ages.
Please do not bring infants to the show.
All shows are in The Marsh Berkeley TheaterStage.
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A duet for live body and film that maps a modern Cordelia and her “Lear-like father” onto the bones of Shakespeare’s Lear and his silent daughter.
“…deeply textured, multilayered and savagely poetical work….” –Real Time Magazine
“Here is theatre – visceral, elemental, brutal – that will heave your heart into your mouth.” –Rob Conkie (Shakespeare Project)
"... a multi-stranded narrative that literally pulsates, like an exploded heart, with deep feeling and mystery" –Ari Roth (Theater J, Washington DC)
Read the article in the SF Chronicle - New!
View a video clip of Cordelia, Mein Kind
Cordelia, Mein Kind is a duet for film and live body; a personal exploration of a present-day Cordelia-like character revealed through language, physicality, image and film. Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, the piece combines original interviews (between a contemporary Cordelia and her father, a Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivor recently deceased who lived in ‘exile’ in the Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh), and other visual imagery, with a language that is gestural, poetic, direct and physical. The multiplicity of performance languages weave seamlessly together, creating a challenging and unique performance work.
Cordelia, Mein Kind takes Cordelia’s silence as its starting point. It probes beneath the surface, exploding the silence to divulge a psychological inheritance and an emotional core linked to her father’s trauma – his history passed on to her - a history of exile and loss.
Magnes by the Marsh is a partnership between The Marsh Theater and The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life presenting theatrical performances with innovative aspects of contemporary Jewish culture. This semi-annual program is co-sponsored by Marianne and Herb Friedman.
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