Summary
Beau Jest Hackney Empire *** JAMES SHERMAN'S Jewish family comedy, which ran well off Broadway in the early Nineties, parades its old-fashioned credentials and never shrinks from saying predictable things or clutching at cliches to express them. The play's message, which Sherman fails to dramatise interestingly, can be encapsulated in a single sentence. Parents may make their children neurotic or dysfunctional if they attempt to impose their cultural and religious beliefs on them.
Sarah Goldman, Beau Jest's attractive teacher-heroine, is caught in just such a bind, a bind particularly noticed in orthodox Jewish families, where parents dread their offspring marrying out of the faith.See the full content of this document
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Deceptive Charm ; Theatre
In Sherman's amusing, not impossible scenario, Lara Pulver's suitably tense Sarah runs i...
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