See it if you are married for 30 years. Universal tragie-comic masterful production in any language.
Don't see it if You do not like super titles. Read more
See it if you are at all interested in contemporary world theater, or offshoots of the theater of the absurd.
Don't see it if you do not know Yiddish & cannot handle projected English surtitles—I had no trouble with them. Read more
See it if You want to see a great work with great acting that's absurd and non traditional but yet also simple and very relatable.
Don't see it if You don't like indie, real, theater. Read more
See it if You are interested in seeing a play in Yiddish that seems as if Anton Chekhov could have written it
Don't see it if You are not interested in a 3 character play about a man angsting about life and wanting to leave his wife Read more
See it if you enjoy family dramas about long term relationships.
Don't see it if you don't like alot of yelling onstage or have difficulty with supertitles (unless you speak the language).
See it if YOu like strong dramas, especially Virginia Wolfe
Don't see it if Don't like using super-titles
See it if You like Yiddish husband and wife light melodrama
Don't see it if You don't like supertitles
See it if If you like a family type genre , husband wife plays dealing with separation.
Don't see it if You do not like a lot of yelling or subtitles during a performance.
"'Hanoch Levin Squared' is a magical back-to-back New Yiddish Rep presentation of two of Levin tragi-comic tours de force...'The Labor of Life' would have made a wonderful script for Groucho Marx...Brilliantly directed in both languages by Ronit Muszkatblit...In the future, anytime you hear about a Yiddish Rep production, listen to me, take a chance and buy yourself a ticket."
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"'The Labor of Life,' in Hebrew, consisting of marital cruelty and death, this time in bed and equally long, is performed by Sokolsky, Asher-Sandler and Rosen under the direction of Muszkatblit...The bigger question is, why? Why this focus on the theater works of Hanoch Levin? The New Yiddish Rep amply demonstrates its talents, devotion and grit, true, even as it amply demonstrates the rigor of Levin’s growing reputation but that does not answer the question."
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