Joshua Harmon has crafted a superb multi-generational play centering on immigration, the Holocaust and the lives of one particular family, says theater critic Terry Byrne.
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Harmon’s historic facts and figures, along with some weighty political debates, and some life-changing decisions, never overwhelm because they are anchored so deeply within four generations of fully realized, three-dimensional members of the Salomon family. We meet the rest of the Salomon family in their longtime Paris apartment in 2016, at the moment when Molly , a distant cousin from the U.S. who is studying abroad, has come to spend the weekend with Marcelle Salomon Benhamou , her husband Charles Benhamou and their two twentysomething children.
Harmon also has a gift for heightened dialogue that feels natural and yet propels ideas, characters and plotlines forward, pulling us deeper into his world. His comic skills, which were on such great display inoffer respite from the difficult stories of persecution, without being glib.
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