REVENGE: After the Levoyah
23 Jan 2025Size: 198mm x 129mm
23 Jan 2025
REVENGE: After the Levoyah
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- Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2024
- Summerhall Lustrum Award - 2024
At their grandfather's funeral in Essex, twins Dan and Lauren meet Malcolm Spivack, a disgruntled eighty-year-old Jewish ex-gangster with a plan that's absolutely meshugge.
What ensues is a ragtag Yiddishe heist to kidnap a certain leader of the Labour Party and hold him accountable for all the antisemitic ailments of the diaspora… and anything else they can think of…
REVENGE: After the Levoyah is a daring satire about antisemitism, the dangers of collective hysteria, and how far a nonagenarian can throw a jar of chraine from a moving vehicle. Revenge is a dish best served pickled.
Written by Nick Cassenbaum and directed by Emma Jude Harris, it was first performed at Summerhall during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award and a Summerhall Lustrum Award, and transferred to The Yard Theatre, London, in 2025.
'A frenzied, hilarious treat for the imagination… absolutely masterful, a breakneck, frequently laugh-out-loud caper'
Scotsman'Riotously funny… unfolds like a two-person Guy Ritchie film'
The Stage'A brilliantly perceptive but brutally unforgiving show that dares to tackle pitch-black subjects with fiery humour'
Arts Desk'An audacious, irreverent blast of a comedy... an ingenious heist movie parody that's also a deft exploration of being Jewish today'
Guardian'Biting and satirical, with sharp humour and a fast-paced plot... delicious'
Reviews Hub'Joyful... Nick Cassenbaum's script is proper funny stuff... every 10 seconds there is another exceptional joke coming to smack you in the face'
All That Dazzles'Magnificent... Nick Cassenbaum balances the ludicrous with the serious... extremely funny... truly brilliant'
Theatre & Tonic'Unmissable.... A jet black Ealing comedy for the 21st century'
Everything Theatre'A fearless, unfiltered fantasy... wildly successful'
Jewish Chronicle'An exciting, fast-paced, incredibly funny, yet refreshingly thoughtful piece of new theatre. Nick Cassembaum's script spits and crackles with chutzpah'
A Youngish Perspective23 Jan 2025Size: 198mm x 129mm
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