It's an uneasy stretch that ultimately fails to convincingly conflate the surprisingly liberal religious arguments that Lessing makes with the extraordinarily complex political/religious/cultural impasse in today's Israel. The interactions between the Christian, Muslim and Jewish characters are frank, barbed and boldly modern sounding"at least in Kemp's version"but come across more as statements of the class structu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:16PM on April 14, 2016