←Recommendations of TREIF PLAY

  • Catherine Weingarten: TREIF PLAY by Evalena Lakin
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    A funny, fast paced, sexy workplace comedy that sizzles with tension, identity politics, religious angst and all the fun things. Evalena has an ear for dialogue and the writing has an amazing boiling, quiet tension to it that explodes at just the right moments.

    A funny, fast paced, sexy workplace comedy that sizzles with tension, identity politics, religious angst and all the fun things. Evalena has an ear for dialogue and the writing has an amazing boiling, quiet tension to it that explodes at just the right moments.

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  • Chris Vanderark: TREIF PLAY by Evalena Lakin
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    Evalena does a really great job of creating a rich setting for this play and for its characters to exist in. The Restaurant itself is a character we meet throughout the play through the interwoven plots that navigate their way through it. By the end, the narratives create some beautiful and heartbreaking parallels that feel very honest and fresh and very Chicago. I'm looking forward to seeing where this play goes next.

    Evalena does a really great job of creating a rich setting for this play and for its characters to exist in. The Restaurant itself is a character we meet throughout the play through the interwoven plots that navigate their way through it. By the end, the narratives create some beautiful and heartbreaking parallels that feel very honest and fresh and very Chicago. I'm looking forward to seeing where this play goes next.

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  • Dizzy Turek: TREIF PLAY by Evalena Lakin
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    who's talking? who's not? friedman proves she's a master of misdirection. you'll be drawn in by the speed of the well honed restaurant dialogue-the ins and outs of the lives and loves of the staff all the while certain silences, certain unknowns begin to pile up until they all spill out. who's holy and who isn't? who can sin and who can't? can you escape the patriarchy and can you build a new life outside it? all important questions, all investigated in friedman's rich play.

    who's talking? who's not? friedman proves she's a master of misdirection. you'll be drawn in by the speed of the well honed restaurant dialogue-the ins and outs of the lives and loves of the staff all the while certain silences, certain unknowns begin to pile up until they all spill out. who's holy and who isn't? who can sin and who can't? can you escape the patriarchy and can you build a new life outside it? all important questions, all investigated in friedman's rich play.

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  • David Narter: TREIF PLAY by Evalena Lakin
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    Two worlds collide in this endearing and entertaining play. Eva's servers will certainly be familiar to anyone who has ever worked at an upscale restaurant (all playwrights!) and she writes them with wit and real life. To this environment, she adds a fascinating outsider who makes it clear to us how ubiquitous and destructive abuses of power can be. This is an engrossing story with charming characters that is perfect for a single-set theatre.

    Two worlds collide in this endearing and entertaining play. Eva's servers will certainly be familiar to anyone who has ever worked at an upscale restaurant (all playwrights!) and she writes them with wit and real life. To this environment, she adds a fascinating outsider who makes it clear to us how ubiquitous and destructive abuses of power can be. This is an engrossing story with charming characters that is perfect for a single-set theatre.

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  • Brian James Polak: TREIF PLAY by Evalena Lakin
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    That restaurant life is all too familiar in Eva Friedman's Treif Play, but the story is far from simple. I love plays about chosen family and the complications that come with them. This play has that plus plus plus. There's an element of fish-out-of-water when a new employee arrives after leaving an oppressive life, and then a former employee dramatically returns to confront and abuser, kicking the drama up several notches. Eva brilliantly weaves together the stories of two woman standing up to abuse, and does so with a sophisticated dramedic style.

    That restaurant life is all too familiar in Eva Friedman's Treif Play, but the story is far from simple. I love plays about chosen family and the complications that come with them. This play has that plus plus plus. There's an element of fish-out-of-water when a new employee arrives after leaving an oppressive life, and then a former employee dramatically returns to confront and abuser, kicking the drama up several notches. Eva brilliantly weaves together the stories of two woman standing up to abuse, and does so with a sophisticated dramedic style.

    ”