![]() ![]() Andrew Hansen’s original score for clarinet, cello and violin creates a subtly beautiful undercurrent to the dialogue and ends the play with a klezmer flourish.Īlex Weisman gives Asher a believable solemnity and commitment to his family and his religion as his passion for his art deepens. The three-actor play, directed by Kimberly Senior, is staged on a two-level set with three musicians at side stage. Timeline Theatre is staging the Chicago premiere of “My Name Is Asher Lev”, written by Aaron Posner and adapted from the best-selling 1972 novel about the Brooklyn Hasidic community by author and rabbi Chaim Potok. It has the power to hurt and the power to heal,” he says at the end of this eloquent 90-minute rumination on the challenges of art and faith, family and responsibility. Asher Lev is an artist, a round-faced, cherubic artist whose paintings horrify his deeply religious Hasidic parents and community. ![]()
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