The Wayward Daughter of Judah the Prince

Playwright Douglas Lackey and director Alexander Harrington have previously collaborated on three plays about the intersections of 20th-century philosophy and politics. In their return to Theater for the New City, the turn back the dial to second-century Palestine in a play that imagines a taboo love affair—between the rebellious daughter of a famous Talmudic scholar and her Christian slave girl—that leads to a spiritual and intellectual awakening.