Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), March 19th, 2007
Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer Transferring literature from the realm of imagination to the reality of theater always bears a risk. Consider "The Great Gatsby," which onstage asks us to substitute mere humanity for our mind's mythic inventions. Having read the script of "The Chosen," I felt Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner had dodged that pitfall in adapting Potok's poignant recollection of two Jewish boys coming of age in the late 1940s. A script, though, is still written word, and Park Square Theatre's staging of the play, which opened Friday, feels unsatisfying in its flesh. Potok tells ...
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