See it if you like rooting for the underdog-here a Hasidic woman who is wrongly treated but has the courage to fight and thereby bring others along.
Don't see it if minimal staging & lighting prevent you from enjoying an off-off Broadway play, or you don't understand Yiddish and don't like superscript.
See it if You like thought-provoking shows that humanize situations that are not what they seem
Don't see it if If you don’t want to read superscript or do not like plays in a language you may not speak
The New Yiddish Rep’s (David Mandelbaum, artistic director) production of the Yiddish language Di Froyen (The Women) is a bittersweet, anger inducing portrait of modern day Chasid women caught between orthodox Jewish ideology and the rush of modern society’s laws and attitudes into their lives. Adapted by Malky Goldman and Melissa Weisz from Naomi Regan’s Women’s Minyan, Di Froyen, in one compact, tense hour, opens up a previously secret world to the public. Here are six women, all wearing sheitels (wigs that orthodox Jewish women must wear because showing their own hair is proscribed by religious law) and all under immense pressure from within and without their enclave.
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