Review: In ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ past is prologue for a Jewish family in Paris

Review: In ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ past is prologue for a Jewish family in Paris

I first saw “Prayer for the French Republic,” Joshua Harmon’s epic exploration of the legacy, or legacies, of antisemitism, just a few weeks after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. At the time, I marveled at how the play, penned some two years earlier, seemed so prescient in its exploration of an upper-middle class Jewish family, feeling and being unsafe as right-wing politics begin to take hold in France in the middle of the second decade of the 21…

Two generations of a Jewish family suffer the anguish of antisemitism in 'Prayer for the French Republic'

Whatever your political inclinations, there’s no denying the urgent timeliness of Joshua Harmon’s epic family drama, “Prayer for the French Republic.” Running through May 11 at Skokie’s Northlight Theatre, the intricate, three-hour, multigenerational drama hurtles by on a razor's edge between tragedy and comedy, rage and serenity, hope and despair.Directed by Jeremy Wechsler (in a co-production between Northlight and Theater Wit) with an acute e…

<em>Prayer for the French Republic</em> Is Dark in Mood but Warm in Tone

In Skokie, Northlight Theatre and Theater Wit’s production of Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic is dark in mood, warm in tone, and beautiful throughout. The play, which runs a surprisingly brisk three hours with two intermissions, follows five generations of a Parisian Jewish family as they perennially wrestle with whether they feel themselves safe in France. In 1944, the elderly couple Irma and Adolphe Salomon wait for news of thei…

‘Prayer for the French Republic’ shows antisemitism’s affect on generations of one Jewish family – Usa news

Whatever your political inclinations, there’s no denying the urgent timeliness of Joshua Harmon’s epic family drama, “Prayer for the French Republic.” Running through May 11 at Skokie’s Northlight Theatre, the intricate, three-hour, multigenerational drama hurtles by on a razor’s edge between tragedy and comedy, rage and serenity, hope and despair. Directed by Jeremy Wechsler (in a co-production between Northlight and Theater Wit) with an acute …