The Action Against Sol Schumann

Author(s): Jeffrey Sweet
Set during the Reagan years, the play concerns a politically committed man named Aaron whose understanding of the world is rocked when his survivor father is threatened with deportation due to charges of what he did when he was a kapo in a labor camp. The play was named a New York Times "Critic's Choice" and won a playwriting prize from the American Theatre Critics Association.
Format: Full-length drama
Cast Size:5M/4F

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Premiered at Victory Gardens Theater of Chicago, March 26, 2001.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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