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Leni’s Last Lament
The award-winning play about HItler’s infamous propagandist filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl.
“It’s a story that matters now more than ever, as far right politics once again stalk our world”!
— The Scotsman
☆☆☆☆ “Soars with a timely relevance!”
“A steller performance by Jodie Markell”!
— Culture Fix
☆☆☆☆ ”Brave and disturbing.
An hallucinatory, whirling paddle through the past; splicing historical tidbits with archive footage and huskily drawled cabaret numbers.”
— Broadway Baby
“Leni’s Last Lament is A Triumph!”
— Jon Sobel/Blog Critics
— EdFringe Review
“Kofman’s script, Markell’s charisma and Caliban’s atmospheric and inventive production add up to a smart, funny, and chilling experience.”
— Jon Sobel/Blog Critics
“Gil Kofman has crafted a dark, complex and refreshingly amusing glimpse into the psyche of a truly complicated boundary-breaking figure. ”
— Culture Fix
— Culture Fix
“Falling In Love Again kicks off this extraordinary and provocative piece of theatre.”
— The Real Chrisparkle
“A riveting one woman show… a work that’s comically dark, psychotically smart, yet still intimately personal”
— The Village View
“Ms Markell is a powerhouse of an actress who brings out all the cunning seductive aspects of the character!”
— Theatre Wire
"Markell’s portrayal is multidimensional in the truest sense—she sings, dances, philosophizes, and shape-shifts throug decades of memory with an intensity that keeps the audienc riveted throughout the show’s 80-minute runtime."
— Front Row Center
— Culture Fix
“Fresh and atmospheric staging from director Richard Caliban ”
— Culture Fix
“As embodied by Jodie Markell, Leni vamps it up like some Weimar diva with the countenance of a mid-period Fassbinder heroine”
“The show is at once bawdy and intellectual. Packed with song and cabaret elements. ”
— Beyond the Curtain
☆☆☆☆ Critics Pick!
“Five shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe”
— The Crush Bar
Critics Pick!
“The Best Theatre at the Festival”
— The London Times
☆☆☆☆ “The brilliance — and also the tragedy— of Leni’s Last Lament is that Leni herself makes us the victim of the same fascist trap that originally ensnared her”
☆☆☆☆ Critics Pick!
“Leni’s Last Lament”
— The Edinburgh Reporter
☆☆☆☆ ”Life is a cabaret for Leni Reifenstahl in Gil Kofman’s play, in which Hitler’s favorite filmmaker takes the stage for one last hurrah to tell her story.”
— The List
☆☆☆☆ ”A smartly scripted, hallucinatory outrageous cabaret carried off with immense panache by Jodie Markell.
An intriguing history and a timely warning of the dangers of being lied to or of acquiescing to populist politics.”
— Edinburgh Guide
☆☆☆☆ Critics Pick!
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— The London Daily News
"Jodie Markell dazzles us as Leni in Gil Kofman’s satirical romp through the revisionist history that was Riefenstahl’s life.
Helmed by Richard Caliban, the production moves beautifully through time and space. Joey Moro’s light and projection is some of the best use of the medium I’ve seen."
— Theatre Beyond Broadway
— The List
