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Theater Review: A New-Old Troupe's Lebensraum (New York Magazine)
After 62 years in existence, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting makes its
belated entrance Off Broadway with its first professional production, a crisp
and technically pristine revival of Israel Horovitz's top-heavy theatrical
thought-experiment _Lebensraum_. The premise is ambitious--a near-future
German chancellor invites 6 million Jews back to Germany, to reestablish the
German Jewry and heal the wounds of the Holocaust--but the show is
straightforward to execute. It requires just three mutable actors--here,
they're Adam Gerber, Aidan Koehler and Mickey Ryan--to play more than 50
roles. Under the steady direction of Don K. Williams, the company conjures up
a compact nightmare of old grudges and wounds-beyond-physic, with flareups
blame, resentment and retaliation that occasionally echo Europe's current
economic crisis. In good poor-theater fashion, this epic is conjured with hats
and shawls, bottles of water, pieces of fruit, practical, offstage sound
effects, and minimal lighting; the set itself is a sort of inside-out boxcar,
nothing but naked lumber, ramps and crates. At the center of the show is a
wispy, wetly telegraphed Romeo-and-Juliet tale, but Koehler and Gerber are a
disciplined and appealing pair, and the hokum they're selling actually sells.
Meanwhile, Ryan handles most of the grown-up ...
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