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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. 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