6/5/2023 0 Comments Asher lev![]() ![]() One thing is absolutely clear in all of this: Asher was a prodigy from the day he was hatched, a genius with ferocious faith in his gift. Fortunately, their religious leader, the Rebbe, intervenes: he sets Asher up with Jacob Kahn, a great-albeit curmudgeonly-artist who becomes Asher’s mentor. Rivkeh, Asher’s loving but anxious and depressive mother, is more sympathetic, but she wants Asher to paint birds and flowers, to make the world a prettier place. ![]() Asher’s father, Aryeh, suspects that his son’s calling may spring from moral darkness. In Aaron Posner’s stage adaptation, as in Chaim Potok’s novel, painter Asher Lev must negotiate the painful conflict between his prodigious talent and the Hasidic Judaism of his Brooklyn community. ![]() But the script also contains considerable intelligence and honest emotionality, which this Pacific Theatre production makes the most of. The script for My Name Is Asher Lev is a romantic and self-regarding account of what it means to be an artist. At Pacific Theatre on Friday, January 28. Adapted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok. ![]()
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