The Retributionists
Opening Night: September 15, 2009
Closing: October 27, 2009
Theater: Playwrights Horizons
Spring 1946. The plan was simple: a German for every Jew. Its execution would be swift, clean, its impact undeniable. In this daring new romantic thriller inspired by actual events, a band of Jewish freedom fighters attempts to avenge a society’s wrongs – if they can keep from tearing each other apart.
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September 15, 2009
When it comes to acts of murderous vengeance, bread baking cannot compete with scalp collecting in terms of lurid allure. On the other hand, the toxic loaves that figure in Daniel Goldfarb’s play “The Retributionists” can lay claim to some factual history, in contrast to the bloody deeds visited upon nasty Nazi bigwigs in Quentin Tarantino’s pop action movie “Inglourious Basterds.”
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