Have you ever seen a play in (at least) four languages? No, me neither. Birds of a Kind was a brilliant, challenging play covering the big themes of identity, family, love, and cross-cultural connections. Featuring a German Jewish young man and an Arabic American young woman who met at NYU and fell in love, their relationship went over about as well you might imagine with his Jewish parents. Large swaths of the play were in Hebrew, German, or Arabic, with English subtitles projected on the back wall. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict featured prominently.
It was delightful to have my cousin Sarah and her partner Rod join us at this play, after they drove all the way from Leamington. They even stayed for late-night chatting and snacking, before turning around and heading home.
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