Karpilevski

A playwright's adventures make excellent material for farce. The production is a farce about a small-time Jewish politician, a third-rate poet, who dies in the arms of a prostitute. The angel Gabriel and Satan defend and persecute him posthumously. To settle his case, God endows Abraham Karpilevski with talent and sends him back to earth to write a play and stage it on Broadway. The result is a satirical look at politics, culture and contemporary theatre. Karpilevski's trial on earth makes the most of a well-written, intelligent play with philosophical and political resonances.