[NEohioPAL] Review of "Jerusalem" at Ensemble Theatre

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Ensemble Theatre has a hit with dark comedy ‘Jerusalem’ 



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics



Like the opening moments of a contemporary staging of a Shakespeare play, it takes a while to adjust to the unfamiliar rhythms that flow through Ensemble Theatre’s staging of Jez Butterworth’s “Jerusalem.”  



It’s not so much the West Country English accent of the characters that takes some getting used to; it’s the dangerous undertow lurking just beneath the play’s brash and occasionally crude comedy.  



Fortunately, the show clocks in at three hours, so there is plenty of time to get one’s bearings.  And this terrific staging of this intriguing play provides plenty of incentive to do so.



For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/. 
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