The Gilded Age star Louisa Jacobson makes a meal of her featured role.
He’s enchanted by secular life roller-skating and, most particularly, pop music.
She’s heartbreaking in her single scene, confronting Shmuel about the constraints of their religion.
Ilan Eskenazi and Ben Hirschhorn in ‘Trayf’.Jeff Lorch/Geffen Theatre
But it’s the three men, boys really, this play revolves around.
But the questionsTrayfraises are bigger than any more hyper-realistic backdrop could provide.
There are no easy answers here, no clear path to charting a course somewhere between freedom and community.
Ben Hirschhorn and Louisa Jacobson in ‘Trayf’.Jeff Lorch/Geffen Theatre
