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Lisa Traiger

A New Play Lifts Veil on Insular Syrian-Jewish Community

By Lisa Traiger

David Adjmi’s newest play terrifies him. It’s provocative and unflinching in its representation of a specific Jewish community as materialistic, close-minded, insular to a fault. Granted, among Adjmi’s other produced works — “The Evildoers,” which packed up a run at Yale Repertory Theatre this past month, and “Elective Affinities,” his meditation following the attacks of September 11, 2001 — his latest has some pointed laughs. But it’s his lurid look at the moral imperatives that inform life and relationships, and his characters who more often than not come out looking ugly, grasping, selfish, that make Adjmi particularly nervous this time.Read More