Camryn Manheim Instagram – If you want to see a smart, complex, funny, frustrating, impassioned play about the impossible conversations we are all having right now, I urge you to see THE ALLY.
THE ALLY performed by a stellar cast is a fierce drama, (although often very funny) that gives voice to some of the most contentious and important questions of our time.
When a college professor (played brilliantly by Josh Radnor) is asked by a student to sign a social justice manifesto, which seems at first like a simple choice, instead embroils him in an increasingly complex web of conflicting agendas that challenge his allegiance as a progressive liberal, a husband, an artist, an academic, an American, an atheist, and a Jew. With tensions at an all-time high, the professor is forced to confront the age old question: “if I am only for myself, what am I?“
Written by the Tony award-winning playwright Itamar Moses (The Band’s Visit), and directed by the award-winning Lila Neugebauer ( The Wolves), The Ally is a passionate, provocative, and unflinching new play about the vanishing line between the personal and the political.
I am a huge fan of Itamar Moses’ writing. He is incredibly sensitive, articulate, precise and surprising. And this play is no different. Written years before October 7th, Moses holds a megaphone up to the complexities and anguish of what’s happening in Israel.
THE ALLY plays at the Public Theater through March 17. | Posted on 29/Feb/2024 04:39:00
