The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.
Guy Ben-Aharon
Theater Review: “Ulysses On Bottles” — Floating More Questions Than Answers
Tragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
Stage Review: An Israeli Playwright Expertly Analyzes “A Case Named Freud”
Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Theater Review: Viva “The World Fixer” at Austrian Stage
In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.
Fuse Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation
To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.
Theater Review: “Crack” — A Theatrical Meditation on Love, Mental Illness, and Modernity
Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.
Theater Review: German Stage — These Youth Don’t Want to Hear No “WhiteBreadMusic”
In interesting ways, German Stage’s ongoing exploration of Germany’s immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.
Theater Review: An Enigmatic “Abyss” — A Crime Drama About Serbs in Germany
Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more ‘cinematic’ when they are produced here?
Theater Feature: Savyon Liebrecht — In Residence at Israeli Stage With Two Plays About Freud and his Family
Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage — two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres here as workshop productions.
Theater Interview: Swiss Playwright Jérôme Richer on Questioning “The Real Meaning of Words”
“Everybody has the power to change the world because we’re a part of it. Even if it’s a really small change, it needs to be done. Writing is my pebble in this path.” – Jérôme Richer