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The Chosen
Price: $32+
pcs.org/chosen
Jewish families may be best known for their overbearing mothers, but father-son relationships are at the heart of The Chosen, a snapshot of the Jewish condition in 1940s Brooklyn. This relationship is the perfect entry to the material of Chaim Potok's source novel: It's intimately tied to the passing down—and disseminating, and protecting—of cultural territory at a time when Jews had to rebuild. Aaron Posner's gutty adaptation translates an insular Jewish book into standing ovations at Portland Center Stage. Credit director Chris Coleman that the live stage does its thing here to facilitate intimate connections with characters who spend a lot of time being unrelatable—i.e., dissecting the finer points of Judaism. Despite a mounting feeling that something Big is going to happen at the end, the ending remarks keep the focus on the father-son relationship, and writer Posner shows faith in his material, Jewiness and all. It's a risk that any Jewish parent would approve of, and it pays dividends. JANE CARLEN
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Gerding Theater at the Armory
- 128 NW 11th, Portland Northwest OR 97205
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503-445-3700
- www.pcs.org
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