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Untaming of the Jew

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20070214
Author:Propst, Andy

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The Jew of Malta By Christopher Marlowe Duke on 42nd 229 West 42nd Street 212-239-6200

Untaming of the Jew

Barabas gets his revenge in a rollicking new production

Mention Christopher Marlowe's dark Elizabethan comedy The Jew of Malta, and anti-Semitism comes to mind, not the word "rollicking." Yet, downtown director David Herskovits (with dramaturgical aid from the Voice's Michael Feingold) has taken Marlowe's play, kept its anti-Semitic aspects intact, and turned it into a contemporary romp. Herskovits's choices and those of John Lee Beatty (who provides a Hogarth-like caricature ...

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