The Action Against Sol Schumann
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Opened Jun 16, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
Opened Jun 16, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
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Sol Schumann is an aging New York Jew and Holocaust survivor. Loved and admired by all, he's a warm-hearted pillar of his orthodox synagogue and devoted father to his two adult sons. In a plot filled with surprising twists and turns, this drama poses serious questions about personal responsibility, ethics and character.
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In one of the first scenes of The Action Against Sol Schumann, a flack for the Reagan White House does damage control for the Gipper's controversial visit to a German cemetery in Bitburg by pointing out that only a small percentage of the people buried there are SS soldiers. Aaron Schumann, the confrontational son of the eponymous character, responds that Reagan can spend 98 seconds honoring the deceased Germans as long as he also "spits for two" seconds. That scene, like so many others in the play, is likely to offend almost everyone: Reagan's detractors will find it too balanced to be damning while ardent conservatives will be upset at the dramatization of one of their hero's most embarra[...]