Guy Ben-Aharon

Theater Review: “The Whole World” — The Monsters Are Us

May 2, 2015
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The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.

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Theater Review: “Ulysses On Bottles” — Floating More Questions Than Answers

April 17, 2015
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Tragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.

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Stage Review: An Israeli Playwright Expertly Analyzes “A Case Named Freud”

January 31, 2015
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Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.

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Theater Review: Viva “The World Fixer” at Austrian Stage

November 30, 2014
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In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.

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Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation

November 13, 2014
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To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.

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Theater Review: “Crack” — A Theatrical Meditation on Love, Mental Illness, and Modernity

November 7, 2014
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Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.

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Theater Review: German Stage — These Youth Don’t Want to Hear No “WhiteBreadMusic”

October 15, 2014
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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.

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Theater Review: An Enigmatic “Abyss” — A Crime Drama About Serbs in Germany

May 26, 2014
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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?

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Theater Feature: Savyon Liebrecht — In Residence at Israeli Stage With Two Plays About Freud and his Family

April 13, 2014
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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.

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Theater Interview: Swiss Playwright Jérôme Richer on Questioning “The Real Meaning of Words”

March 11, 2014
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“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

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