Nathan Englander’s new play, The Twenty Seventh Man, at The Public Theater. The play, set in a 1950s Soviet prison, centers around a group of writers who are the giants of Yiddish literature, and now face jail walls. When a twenty-seventh writer is added, who hasn’t been published and seems to be the odd one out, the group wrestles with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times.
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