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Jubilee
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Slow, Confusing, Resonant, Absorbing, Relevant
About the show
Theater for the New City presents this bleak satire from Hungarian émigré George Tabori about a young neo-Nazi's encounter in a graveyard. More…
In the rarely seen 'Jubilee.' a neo–Nazi youth hellbent on defacing Jewish headstones is visited by a Jewish family and a gay couple, who find deliciously sinister ways to goad the miscreant to move on. 'Jubilee' is part of 'Two by Tabori' and is running in repertory with 'Mein Kampf.'
“An absurdist play, a so-called black comedy, wryly witty and slyly droll…'Jubilee' is more often than not a pastiche...'Jubilee' is a complex work and often a talky one. It’s the kind of play that demands much from its ensemble of actors. While this cast attacked the piece with competence, the h...
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"Can decomposing dead Jews find peace in a Jewish cemetery 50 years after Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany? Jubilee! Perhaps they are doomed to remember what they'd rather forget. The play is worth seeing if, for nothing else, than to see the scene of a woman drowning in a telephone boo...
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"For a play that markets as satire, 'Jubilee' sheds remarkably little new light on the subject matter...Due to either some kind of translation convention, or datedness in the writing, many of the jokes don't land. The result is a black comedy in which the comedy is sorely lacking...Everything it ...
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"This play is a scathing rebuke of any sympathy for the type of behavior that led to the deaths of so many in Nazi Germany. 'Jubilee' revolves around Juergen's visits to a Jewish graveyard where the victims of his hate lie buried. As discrimination grows, do we just stand by until an outright act...
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