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‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ ‘Appropriate’ Among Tony Nominees Tackling Antisemitism, Racism and More Social Issues
From 'Prayer for the French Republic' to 'Appropriate,' Tony Nominees are tackling current social issues.
In “Appropriate,” Jacobs-Jenkins employs the scaffolding of a textbook American drama — a white family returns home to a decaying estate to sort through the belongings of a dead patriarch — to excavate the legacy of racism and slavery that tends to go unspoken in these stories. Although the play first premiered a decade ago, critics and audiences today have nonetheless found the depiction of one family’s sniping, grasping denial to be discomfortingly timely in the post-George Floyd era. That certainly proved true for Joshua Harmon, whose play “Prayer for the French Republic,” a multifaceted look at a Gaul family spurred by rising local antisemitism to consider a move to Israel.
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