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James Earl Jones to Perform King Lear Scenes

Free performance and town-hall style discussion to address challenges of aging, isolation, dementia, elder abuse and caring for seniors 

Featuring the actors James Earl Jones, Julianna Francis Kelly, Andrea Patterson, Obi Abili, and Linda Powell.

Laurie M. Tisch, president, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund (Event Sponsor)

Bryan Doerries, Theater of War Productions (Director and Facilitator)

The King Lear Project presents streamlined readings of scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear featuring James Earl Jones to engage audiences—including older adults, caregivers, and family members—in open, healing, constructive, discussions about the challenges of aging, dementia, and caring for friends and loved ones.

King Lear by William Shakespeare depicts an elderly king at the border of losing his faculties and independence, who makes a series of rash decisions regarding the future of his kingdom, fracturing his family and isolating himself from those who love him most.

The event is designed to engage diverse audiences in discussions about aging, dementia. and elder care to confront social issues by drawing out raw and personal reactions to themes highlighted in the play and complex family dynamics.

Theater of War Productions is a social impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health and social issues, such as combat-related psychological injury, end of life care, prison reform, political violence and torture, domestic violence, and the de-stigmatization of the treatment of substance abuse and addiction. For more information about all of our projects, please visit: www.theaterofwar.com

Founded in 2007 by philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund supports innovative strategies to address long-standing problems in New York City. Inspired by her parents, Joan H. Tisch and the late Preston Robert Tisch, Ms. Tisch sought a philanthropic outlet that would advance the idea that everyone should have access to positive and enriching opportunities that define a full range of human experience and that circumstances of birth should not limit choices or short circuit success for anyone.











When: Thu., Jun. 13, 2019 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where: Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street
718-681-6000
Price: Free
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Free performance and town-hall style discussion to address challenges of aging, isolation, dementia, elder abuse and caring for seniors 

Featuring the actors James Earl Jones, Julianna Francis Kelly, Andrea Patterson, Obi Abili, and Linda Powell.

Laurie M. Tisch, president, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund (Event Sponsor)

Bryan Doerries, Theater of War Productions (Director and Facilitator)

The King Lear Project presents streamlined readings of scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear featuring James Earl Jones to engage audiences—including older adults, caregivers, and family members—in open, healing, constructive, discussions about the challenges of aging, dementia, and caring for friends and loved ones.

King Lear by William Shakespeare depicts an elderly king at the border of losing his faculties and independence, who makes a series of rash decisions regarding the future of his kingdom, fracturing his family and isolating himself from those who love him most.

The event is designed to engage diverse audiences in discussions about aging, dementia. and elder care to confront social issues by drawing out raw and personal reactions to themes highlighted in the play and complex family dynamics.

Theater of War Productions is a social impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health and social issues, such as combat-related psychological injury, end of life care, prison reform, political violence and torture, domestic violence, and the de-stigmatization of the treatment of substance abuse and addiction. For more information about all of our projects, please visit: www.theaterofwar.com

Founded in 2007 by philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund supports innovative strategies to address long-standing problems in New York City. Inspired by her parents, Joan H. Tisch and the late Preston Robert Tisch, Ms. Tisch sought a philanthropic outlet that would advance the idea that everyone should have access to positive and enriching opportunities that define a full range of human experience and that circumstances of birth should not limit choices or short circuit success for anyone.

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