Max Olesker: Making the Cut review – up close and personal account of comic’s religious conversion
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThis show about Olesker’s lengthy journey to becoming an Orthodox Jew in order to marry his partner is both elegant and nuanced‘I would do anything for love,” Meat Loaf sang, “but I won’t do that.” Max Olesker would, if his solo show Making the Cut – based on his memoir – is any guide. It recounts the comic and writer’s conversion from liberal to Orthodox Judaism, a process …