The Wife
Opening Night: December 5, 2010
Closing: December 19, 2010
Theater: Access Theater
Equal parts black comedy and psychological drama, The Wife centers around Ruth, a Hasidic woman who befriends her white neighbors. What seems at first an innocent relationship quickly escalates, and the play spirals into a series of events which unravel an entire community. With wit, humor, and wisdom, Smith’s play exposes the best and worst parts of humanity, kind people turn venomous, and cruel people act with compassion.
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December 12, 2010
Tommy Smith pulls strange bedfellows from the urban melting pot and has them collide in “The Wife,” a sort of warped, contemporary “La Ronde” at the Access Theater. Jew and gentile, black and white, immigrant and native: Mr. Smith’s characters meet and try to connect. But this is no earnest, let’s-all-get-along tale. It’s too odd and prickly and prone to the dark side.
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