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Larry Rinkel

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  • The Sun, The Moon, and Talia by Ian Thal
    1 Oct. 2018
    “ Adapted from the version of the Sleeping Beauty story found in Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone," Ian Thal's fairy tale for radio presents a more ambiguous and violent slant than that you may know from Disney or Tchaikovsky. No Prince Charming here, but a self-serving rapist who forces himself on the lovely sleeping Talia and has two children by her. Using a variety of sound effects and a non-linear telling of the story, Thal skilfully depicts extremes of depravity and innocence. Not for children. ”
  • TRAYF by Lindsay Joelle
    29 Sep. 2018
    “ A wonderful play, saturated with the atmosphere of Chasidic Brooklyn. Best friends Shmuel and Zalmy, who drive around in a “Mitzvah Tank” that is like a portable shul, at first sound like a Jewish version of Gogo and Didi in their loquacious repartee. But once Jonathan, a young Catholic man, finds them and wishes to discover his inner Judaism, rifts occur between the two Chasids and they find their friendship tested. The play, which also depicts Jonathan’s girlfriend who rejects her Judaism as a “liability,” asks how to live a frum existence in a world full of secular challenges. ”
  • Blue by Emily Hageman
    8 Sep. 2018
    “ At first Lilith is told to think of her grandpa as a hero. But as she grows older, she comes to recognize the depth of her grandfather's flaws and eventual suicide, as well as her grandmother's inability to hold on to the myth of her husband as an idealized figure. In this sweetly lyric and elegiac play about Lilith’s growth of perception, she decides ultimately to see both grandparents as worthy of admiration and compassion, and not to disparage the grandfather who killed himself out of guilt even though it meant not seeing not seeing his granddaughter grow up. ”
  • IN TRAINING by Rachael Carnes
    4 Jul. 2018
    “ I've spent enough time in the corporate workplace to know that this fantastical little comedy is only one step beyond what actually happens between bemused and well-meaning employees and their incomprehensibly demanding bosses. A cutely serpentine play that says it all in a tiny space. ”

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