It is one way for a playwright to cover a lot of territory in record time. Create a character who is bipolar - or, to use an old term, "manic depressive" - and set her down with a character that has already been established as naïve and rather uninformed - or, to use a better word, "American" - and then have the emotionally challenged one go off on a long rant that covers the subject of anti-Semitism for the past several decades. It's the kind of scene that invariably elicits applause when it's...
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The Wrap - 2 Feb 2022 06:00
It is one way for a playwright to cover a lot of territory in record time. Create a character who is bipolar - or, to use an old term, "manic depressive" - and set her down with a character that has already been established as naïve and rather uninformed - or, to use a better word, "American" - and then have the emotionally challenged one go off on a long rant that covers the subject of anti-Semitism for the past several decades. It's the kind of scene that invariably elicits applause when it's...
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