cover art by Joe Medrano
"The first full production
of new play by Mark Harelik is a sequel to his previous
successful drama, THE IMMIGRANT. This ongoing story of the
Estanitskys, a Jewish family in Texas, slightly resembles, in its
second installment, some aspects of Neil Simon's
semi-autobiographical saga founded on his own early
experiences--and with a precocious and talkative little lad
serving as the author's presumed stand-in and mouthpiece as
well....
Instead of spotlighting the
psyche of some wunderkind, the playwright is probing (but never
answering) ultimate posers dealing with life and death, God and
man, Jew and Gentile, human suffering and eternal
"Why?". Harelik makes ideas confront each other with
Shavian gusto, but he never lets the battle of words stray far
from the passions and pain that provokes it....
THE LEGACY is as strong
emotionally as it is cogitatively."
George Weinberg-Harter, Drama-Logue
3 M, 2 F
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