Joanne and Tate received news that their mother had a stroke and is hospitalized. Upon arriving to the hospital room they discover a German woman, who barely speaks any English, claiming to be their mother's sister. Tensions escalate between the siblings as the German woman and her son reveal the reason they're here and make a shocking claim about their grandfather during WWII.
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Monologue: Act 1, Scene 1
Scene: Act 2, Scene 2
2014, Yale Repertory Theatre,
2014
American Theatre (Vol. 34 Issue 4) April 2017
8750-3255 (ISSN)
Two out of seven cast members are in their 60s, and each character has a very specific racial identity.
Two out of seven cast members are in their 60s, and each character has a very specific racial identity.
Stylized
Nathan Abramowitz, Nathan Glass and Nathan Isaacs form a boyhood club and together grapple with their Jewish faith and identity, until Glass suddenly moves to Israel. Many years later, a telegram summons Abramowitz and Isaacs to a synagogue in Spain for one last meeting of the League of Nathans.
Realistic
Rachel and Chaim are Orthodox Jews living in Toronto. They have requested an arranged marriage and today is their wedding day. The Yichud Room is the place where the bride and groom go to be alone immediately following the wedding ceremony. In the case of Rachel and Chaim, who have only had a handful of chaperoned dates, this is the first time they have ever been alone together. In another part of the synagogue, tensions rise between the groom's older brothers, Ephraim and Menachem, rival Torah scholars who haven't seen each other in four years. Meanwhile, the bride's parents, Mordechai and Malka, are secretly planning to divorce after the wedding. YICHUD (Seclusion) directly confronts the tensions that exist in the Orthodox Jewish world between tradition and modernity, powerfully dramatizing issues of love, marriage, respect, sex, honour, and duty.
