Queen Lear

Women on tour: Along the southern Turkish coast, a theater group gives guest performances in one village after another. Shakespeare's "King Lear" is on the program. The highlight is that all the male roles are played by women. Acting increases their self-esteem and helps them to forget their worries. Along the way, they shake up life in many a village, questioning customs of patriarchal society. This film opens up a whole new view of women in Turkey, a nd unlike the gloomy original, QUEEN LEAR also invites laughter. "QUEEN LEAR is an endearing ode to the collective power of art and a subtle call for gender equality in Turkey." (The Guardian)

Keywords

  • Doing Gender
  • Exclusive Docs: New Perspectives
  • Just released
  • Screen: Turkey
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • middle east
  • small town
  • theater
  • travel
  • women

Actors

  • Behiye Yanık
  • Cennet Güneş
  • Ümmü Kurt

Director

  • Pelin Esmer

Documentary, Independent


1h 24min


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Turkey
2019
Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.


Women on tour: Along the southern Turkish coast, a theater group gives guest performances in one village after another. Shakespeare's "King Lear" is on the program. The highlight is that all the male roles are played by women.


Acting increases their self-esteem and helps them to forget their worries. Along the way, they shake up life in many a village, questioning customs of patriarchal society.


This film opens up a whole new view of women in Turkey, a

nd unlike the gloomy original, QUEEN LEAR also invites laughter.


"QUEEN LEAR is an endearing ode to the collective power of art and a subtle call for gender equality in Turkey." (The Guardian)

Cast & Crew