Most people don't like to have their views challenged. But when your long-held convictions about religion are upended? Oof. Forget about it. That's what got Baruch de Spinoza excommunicated from his Jewish community in Amsterdam, as told in David Ives' cerebral historical drama -- with its mouthful of a subtitle, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Torah Talmud Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656.Spinoza is …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:29PM on April 8, 2018