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Anthony Davis and Allan Havis's Lear on the 2nd Floor Performed by the Eastman Opera Theatre

Nov. 21, 2022

From November 3-6, the Eastman Opera Theatre performed Anthony Davis and Allan Havis's opera, Lear on the 2nd Floorat Kilborn Hall. 

In Lear on the 2nd Floor, a contemporary inversion of Shakespeare's King Lear, a prominent neuroscience researcher in her late 50s or early 60s (Dr. Nora Lear) is suddenly beset by dementia. As Nora loses her bearings and her autonomy, she is quickly at the mercy of her three quarreling, but loving daughters who range in lifestyle from high society to adult movie making. An attending nurse from the Caribbean gives Nora some respite. Nora’s dead husband Mortimer is her constant escort throughout as she walks through a vortex of memory, guilt and human sensibility. The least vulnerable and most professional daughter wins court appointed guardianship, but Nora escapes from this Court’s tight grip by flying with her husband through the notorious Second Floor.


Excerpt from the world premiere performance of Lear on the 2nd Floor
featuring Susan Narucki as Dr. Nora Lear and Jorell Williams as the Nurse.

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Anthony Davis
Lear on the 2nd Floor (2013)
an opera in 2 acts
libretto (Eng) by Allan Havis
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