![]() Champa and sound and music by Lindsay Jones. The wealth gap between the couples is made abundantly clear by the glitzy physical production, with luxurious scenic design by Paul Tate DePoo III, costumes by Katherine Roth, lighting by Russell H. But in this fast-moving, 105-minute play, audience members are eager flies on the wall for a very direct, very funny and frequently explosive conversation between two long-estranged Jewish couples who are holding nothing back, including their darkly humorous jokes, like the one about the theme park sweet shop (the Dairy of Anne Frank, with 6 million flavors).īased on Englander’s 2013 short story of the same name, “What We Talk About” is set in 2019 at the Miami home of secular Jews Phil and Debbie, who have invited over Debbie’s childhood best friend, Lauren, and her husband, Mark, both Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jews who have lived in Israel for the past 20 years. 18 in its world premiere at the Old Globe.ĭirected in the round by Globe artistic chief Barry Edelstein with a palpable rising tension, “What We Talk About” is about the things we don’t talk about, or at least subjects that non-Jews respectfully avoid. ![]() What do you call an ice cream shop at a Holocaust theme park? The funny but tasteless punchline is one of dozens of gasp-inducing zingers in Nathan Englander’s whip-smart comedy “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” which opened Sunday, Sept. ![]()
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