Recommendations of In Every Generation

  • David Davila: In Every Generation

    A masterpiece of a play that asks its audience to wager the price of a people's identity against the survival of that very identity. Is it better to assimilate to the identity of the oppressor or die filled with a pride for your cultural and ethnic history? Everyone should read this play and it should be taught in schools. The perfect starting point for conversations around colonialism, fascism, and genocide in any generation across all racial, ethnic, and national identities.

    A masterpiece of a play that asks its audience to wager the price of a people's identity against the survival of that very identity. Is it better to assimilate to the identity of the oppressor or die filled with a pride for your cultural and ethnic history? Everyone should read this play and it should be taught in schools. The perfect starting point for conversations around colonialism, fascism, and genocide in any generation across all racial, ethnic, and national identities.

  • Lainie Vansant: In Every Generation

    "Ritual is tradition, but it's also time travel." What a beautiful start to this beautiful play. Viterbi tackles the mystical with humanity and grace in this piece. It's heart wrenching and lovely, and I wish I could see it live.

    "Ritual is tradition, but it's also time travel." What a beautiful start to this beautiful play. Viterbi tackles the mystical with humanity and grace in this piece. It's heart wrenching and lovely, and I wish I could see it live.

  • Nick Malakhow: In Every Generation

    A beautiful play both intimate and epic in scope. In the Levi-Katz family and the holiday of Passover, we have a core nucleus to care about and track as Viterbi explores so many aspects of Judaism, Jewish identity/diaspora and the multitudes within. Highly theatrical but accessible...I hope to see this produced far and wide!

    A beautiful play both intimate and epic in scope. In the Levi-Katz family and the holiday of Passover, we have a core nucleus to care about and track as Viterbi explores so many aspects of Judaism, Jewish identity/diaspora and the multitudes within. Highly theatrical but accessible...I hope to see this produced far and wide!

  • David Winitsky: In Every Generation

    Ali is a great writer with a real connection to Jewish culture. We expect big things from her.

    Ali is a great writer with a real connection to Jewish culture. We expect big things from her.

  • Emmalias .: In Every Generation

    Absolutely beautiful. Manages to move through time and space on an epic scale while still remaining intimate and emotionally impactful. Viterbi's mastery of language and understanding of the subject matter is so overwhelmingly clear.

    Absolutely beautiful. Manages to move through time and space on an epic scale while still remaining intimate and emotionally impactful. Viterbi's mastery of language and understanding of the subject matter is so overwhelmingly clear.

  • Audrey Lang: In Every Generation

    "In Every Generation" is, without a doubt, one of the best Jewish plays I've ever read. In this play, Ali Viterbi addresses so many of the complications surrounding Jewish identity, from who is "allowed" to feel or be Jewish, to being "Jewish enough," to even being "not-Jewish enough," as well as the intergenerational trauma associated with the Holocaust and Judaism. The way Viterbi tackles this by using four vastly different Jewish moments in time (moments in Jewish time?) is nothing short of brilliant. Every young Jewish person (and old Jewish person) should experience this play -- every...

    "In Every Generation" is, without a doubt, one of the best Jewish plays I've ever read. In this play, Ali Viterbi addresses so many of the complications surrounding Jewish identity, from who is "allowed" to feel or be Jewish, to being "Jewish enough," to even being "not-Jewish enough," as well as the intergenerational trauma associated with the Holocaust and Judaism. The way Viterbi tackles this by using four vastly different Jewish moments in time (moments in Jewish time?) is nothing short of brilliant. Every young Jewish person (and old Jewish person) should experience this play -- every generation.

  • Cheryl Bear: In Every Generation

    A beautiful, moving play. A story of the past and present coming together through the generations of family and the community as a whole and the love that carries them. Well done.

    A beautiful, moving play. A story of the past and present coming together through the generations of family and the community as a whole and the love that carries them. Well done.

  • Nan Barnett: In Every Generation

    A gorgeous, lush look at the lives of three generations and the impact of the Holocaust on them. Past, present, and future combine as the story moves back and forth, giving us glimpses of how their love both protects and hinders them. A beautiful play from a writer to watch.

    A gorgeous, lush look at the lives of three generations and the impact of the Holocaust on them. Past, present, and future combine as the story moves back and forth, giving us glimpses of how their love both protects and hinders them. A beautiful play from a writer to watch.

  • Ralph Meranto: In Every Generation

    Epic...beautiful....powerful...honest

    Epic...beautiful....powerful...honest

  • Charles Green: In Every Generation

    One of the most moving plays I’ve ever encountered. The depth of historical, Jewish consciousness here is unparalleled, managing to theatricalize both the inherited trauma and the inherited hope of our people in a dramatically nuanced and experimentally bold presentation. There is no sentimentality or stale, normative Judaism in this piece; it is a modern, honest reexamination of our past and a daring, radical look into our future.

    One of the most moving plays I’ve ever encountered. The depth of historical, Jewish consciousness here is unparalleled, managing to theatricalize both the inherited trauma and the inherited hope of our people in a dramatically nuanced and experimentally bold presentation. There is no sentimentality or stale, normative Judaism in this piece; it is a modern, honest reexamination of our past and a daring, radical look into our future.