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Bad Jews, Arts Theatre
A blistering black comedy that hits where it hurts. Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged arts theatre, bad jews, comedy, family, jew, joshua harmon, judaism, london, play, review, telegraph, theatre, west end
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Leopoldstadt, Wyndham’s Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s latest – and possibly final – play has few of the dramatic hallmarks you might expect from him: the dazzling linguistic flourishes, the formal trickery, the knotty metaphors and giddy metatheatricality. Instead, we have a relatively straightforward, linear … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged antisemitism, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, ed stoppard, family, holocaust, jew, jewish, leopoldstadt, nazi, patrick marber, play, review, ticket deal, tom stoppard, vienna, west end, wyndhams theatre
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Fiddler on the Roof, Menier Chocolate Factory
There’s a welcome alternative to panto hijinks in this gem of a Trevor Nunn musical revival – more attuned to the biting hardships of winter, and to the elegiac aspect of change, than to festive jollies. Which is not to say that there … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged andy nyman, dancing, daughter, faith, family, father, fiddler on the roof, if i were a rich man, immigrant, jew, jewish, judaism, judy kuhn, london, love, marriage, menier chocolate factory, musical, religion, review, revolution, russia, singing, theartsdesk, theatre, tradition, trevor nunn, tsar
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Bad Jews, Arts Theatre
Joshua Harmon’s provocative 2012 piece is the Rocky of comedies. His evenly matched sparring partners, a pair of viscerally antagonistic cousins confined in close quarters after a familial loss, bruise, bludgeon and literally draw blood. The bonds of kinship have … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged america, american, arts theatre, bad jews, cousin, culture, death, drama, faith, family, funeral, heritage, holocaust, identity, inheritance, jew, jewish, joshua harmon, judaism, kin, london, new york, play, race, racial, religion, review, rocky, summertime, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, tradition, west end
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Theatre company defends culture in dark times
Reviewers like to believe we have power of influence, but those in Stalinist Russia had power of life and death: a bad write-up spelled doom for the subject. Yet their opinions could not contradict those of the ‘great leader’, and … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anti-seminitism, david schneider, ham and high, hampstead, jew, jewish, jw3, kafka, king lear, london, making stalin laugh, moscow, Moscow State Yiddish Theatre, play, purges, review, russia, shakespeare, shostakovich, stalin, theatre, ussr, yiddish
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The writing’s on the wall
“It is the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction,” proclaimed The New York Times Book Review of American author Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s 1938 epistolary novella Address Unknown. Seventy-five years later, her work still packs a powerful punch in the form of … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged address unknown, america, austerity, bnp, book, drama, economic downturn, edl, edward snowden, germany, hitler, holocaust, jazz, jew, letter, london, murder, nazi, new york times, novel, opera, play, recession, saki, second world war, soho theatre, surveillance, theatre, world world two
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