How Shakespeare Saved My Life Review by Jonathan Mandell

Addressing the audience as his congregation, Jacob Ming-Trent tells us upfront that the story he is about to relate – how a Black, fat, unloved, homeless high school dropout stumbled onto the Bard and vowed to become a Shakespearean actor  — is not autobiographical. “This show is testimony,” he says. (Huh?) And it’s only a one-man...

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