Mrs. Sorskin Presents... ("Ubu Lear" and Other Peerless Classics)

Mrs. Sorkin Presents… is an evening of absurdist parodies.  The first, Ubu Lear, is a combination of Alfred Jarry’s notorious satire Ubu Roi and Shakespeare’s King Lear set to music and performed in twenty minutes.  When Cordelia angers Lear, he has her head cut off and thrown in the bouillabaisse.  In Desire, Desire, Desire (The Further Adventures of Blanche and Stanley), Stanley and Blanche wait for six years for Stella to return with a lemon Coke.  In the meantime, characters from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Iceman Cometh, and Harvey come to visit.  There are send-ups of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind, Peter Shaffer’s Equus, John Pielmeir’s Agnes of God, and a satire of Robert Wilson interpretig Shaw’s Pygmalion,  Mrs. Hedy Sorkin hosts the evening comically introducing each play as she tries her best to explain, understand, and enjoy serious drama.