About the Show

Meta-Phys Ed.'s "The Talmud" is a genre-bending performance that draws from a century of Chinese martial arts cinema, and, a single chapter of The Talmud--a 5th century text of Rabbinic Judaism.

Critic Reviews (2)

"This ambitious work moves at a dizzying pace, and combines new technology with traditional stagecraft…Many things feel significant, but it is rarely clear just what that significance is…Further, for a self-described kung fu-inspired show, there isn't much martial arts movement."
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"Talmudic scholars and kung fu movie fans will both find something familiar in this singular hour-long hybrid …I could discern little connection at any given moment between what the performers were saying and how they were moving....[yet] an exquisitely eerie hour of theater."
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