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Dostoevsky, Hemingway, and — racist
importantly — Freud.
The two boys become unlikely best
friends.. Reuven learns that Danny has
igmund Freud once wrote
that man's relationship to God been brought up in silence. Outside of
his father's religious instruction, the
depends on his relationship
rabbi refuses to speak to his son. For
with his earthly father. This
Reuven, it is a peculiar mystery. His
theory is at the heart of The Chosen, a
own father, David (Samuel Pollak), is
drama based on Chaim Potok's
open, respectful and caring.
acclaimed 1967 novel and adapted for
Although Danny is clearly torment-
the stage by Potok and Aaron Posner.
ed by this silence, he also
It's a tremendously effective
rationalizes it: "Silence has a
adaptation — sweet and
quality and dimension all its
smart — and will certainly be
own," he observes. "It has a
recognized as one of the finest
strange, beautiful texture."
productions to be staged by the Jewish
The riveting story explores not only a
Ensemble Theatre in recent years.
growing friendship but also the Jewish
Directed by Pat Ansuini, and cast
community's dawning awareness of the
with a superb ensemble, JET'S pro-
Holocaust and the politics of Zionism.
duction brings out the rich poetic
It's a fascinating play, and the per-
nature of the play, treating the materi-
formances live up to
al with insight.
the material. Adam
The staging sug-
Rochkind displays a
gests the play's many
witty charm as the
contrasts: the opposi-
young Reuven. He is
tion of words and
well-matched with
silence; of secular
Andrew Parker's
Judaism and
compellingly
Orthodoxy; of rabbis
restrained perform-
and psychoanalysts.
ance as Danny.
The adult Reuven
But the guts of the
Malter (Jeff Nahan)
play
are found in the
narrates the play,
Robert Gross man and Andrew intimidating charac-
recounting a signifi-
ter of Reb Saunders.
cant portion of his
Parker in "The Chosen"
Robert Grossman's
youth.
performance is spell-
Young Reuven
binding. He takes a role that in the
(Adam Rochkind) is a clever Jewish
hands of a lesser actor would have eas-
boy in 1944 Brooklyn. One summer,
ily given way to caricature, and makes
while pitching in a Jewish baseball
the inscrutable rabbi painfully human.
league, Reuven encounters a rival at
The Chosen has much to say about the
bat, Danny Saunders (Andrew
nature of human relationships. And as
Parker). Danny is a Chasidic boy, the
Freud has shown us, human behavior is
son of Reb Saunders (Robert
anything but simple. Yet like the
Grossman), a leading rabbi in the
Talmud, The Chosen asks us to accept its
Orthodox community.
wonderful, unresolved ambiguities.
There is an instant unspoken hostil-
ity between the two boys. And when
Danny's forceful hitting sends the ball
JET's production of The Chosen
straight at Reuven's head — breaking
runs 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-
his glasses and injuring his eye — nei-
Thursdays, 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2
ther boy is certain whether the acci-
and 7:30 p.m. Sundays through
dent was all that "accidental."
June 8 at the Jewish Community
While hospitalized, Reuven is visited
Center in West Bloomfield. There
by Danny, who comes quoting Talmud
are additional matinees 12:30 p.m.
and asking forgiveness. Danny also
Wednesday, May 21, and 2 p.m.
shares a secret: Forbidden by Chasidic
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