Kvetch
From: Sunday, 9th October 2011
To: Friday, 4 November 2011
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Synopsis
Fear of impotence, unemployment, losing hair, getting fat, parking tickets, isolation, learning the piano, telling a joke, sweat, grease, dark cupboards, sex, fear of women, ear of men, fear of fear. Welcome to the world of Kvetch. Dedicated to the afraid.
Our Review:
12 October 2011
‘Kvetch’ is humorous North American slang derived from the Yiddish meaning complain or moan, used as either a verb or a noun. In Steven Berkoff’s satirical comedy, premiered in Los Angeles in 1986 and subtitled ‘An American Play about Anxiety’, the word refers both to the characters whining about other people and to the neuroses nagging away inside them.
Berkoff’s play is really a series of brilliant sketches/kvetches which doesn’t evolve satisfactorily as a narrative. There are some very funny moments of social embarrassment when Jewish textile salesman Frank brings back his recently separated colleague Hal for dinner at his home, with his downtrodden, sexually dissatisfied wife Donna and dyspeptic Russian mother-in-law. But later developments of an adulterous affair and gay coming out fail to convince.
The technique Berkoff uses ingeniously is to alternate awkwardly restrained interaction between the characters with uninhib...
Cast
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Steven Berkoff (Author)
There is Not an Exit (Company)
Julio Maria Martino (Director)
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