Meshugah
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 15, 2003
Closed May 31, 2003
Opened May 15, 2003
Closed May 31, 2003
Directions & Map
TICKETS TO THIS SHOW
BUY TICKETS
CHECK FOR DISCOUNTS
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Naked Angels presents the New York premiere of Meshugah, written by Emily Mann, based on the novel by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, and directed by Loretta Greco. Set in New York City in the 1950's, Meshugah paints a tragi-comic portrait of a community of recent Jewish émigrés living in the wake of World War II. Centered around a love triangle among three refugees--Aaron, a middle-aged columnist for The Forward; feisty 67-year-old Max, a womanizing stock market speculator; and beautiful young Miriam whose terrifying story of Holocaust survival presents Aaron with a life-changing dilemma--Meshugah brings to theatrical life Singer's poignant love story of lost souls in a world gone meshugah.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
No user reviews have been posted yet.
Write a review
NEWSLETTER SIGN UP
MOST POPULAR
SHARED ON FACEBOOK
By providing information about entertainment and cultural events on this site, TheaterMania.com shall not be deemed to endorse,
recommend, approve and/or guarantee such events, or any facts, views, advice and/or information contained therein.
©1999-2012 TheaterMania.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy
recommend, approve and/or guarantee such events, or any facts, views, advice and/or information contained therein.
©1999-2012 TheaterMania.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy
In Emily Mann's new play Meshugah, adapted from the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel, everyone's a little mad. Meshugah (Yiddish for "crazy") is about a trio of Polish Jews who have left behind the Holocaust and its horrors and are establishing lives for themselves in New York City, only to find that memories of the dead and deeds done live on.
Aaron Greidinger (Ned Eisenberg), mid-40s, a novelist and writer for the Yiddish paper The Daily Forward, is one of these lost souls. Stalled in his creative writing, he devotes most of his time to an advice column but is rapidly running out of advice; what, after all, does one say to console someone who has lost his entire family in concentration camp[...]