Synopsis
The Tenth Man
$10.99 Published by Samuel French Inc
Large Mixed Cast
They are not all devout ...
... one is a comic atheist who says he only comes to the temple to keep warm
... and another is a young agnostic lawyer who has made a mess of his life and whom analysis is keeping from brink of suicide
One of the ten men who come this day brings his granddaughter who is in a trance
He believes she is possessed by a dybbuk
Some of the others think she is just plain crazy
She glides from periods of lucidity into absolute irrationality and then into trance
During saner moments, she and the young agnostic are attracted to one another
The rabbi, convinced she has a dybbuk, arranges an exorcism
At the culmination of the ritual, it is the dybbuk of the young man that is exorcised - the one that has prevented him from loving anyone
CAST : M12,F1
REVIEWS
"An enchanting play ... Thoroughly original, comic dialogue" ~ New York Times