The Village Voice, July 28th, 2004
The Gesher succeeds in freeing Singer's The Slave onstage
THE SLAVE
Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel
John Jay College Theater
(Closed)
PRISONERS OF LOVE
Bursting with colorful eccentrics and romantic lunacy, Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction seems destined for the stage. Yet the best dramatization has been on screen-Paul Mazursky's Enemies: A Love Story, with the sublime Anjelica Houston capturing the author's blasted comedy of persevering oldworld souls in dizzying post-Holocaust New York. Film may actually be more accommodating of Singer's episodic style (originally serialized in t...
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