Sons of the Prophet
"Explosively funny...one of the many soul-piercing truths in SONS OF THE PROPHET, the absolutely wonderful...comedy-drama by Stephen Karam, is that life rarely obeys the rules of dramatic consistency, or, for that matter, fair play. Written with insight and compassion, not to mention biting wit, it shines a clarifying light into some of life's darker passages, exploring how people endure the unendurable, and not only survive but also move forward through their blighted lives with sustaining measures of hope, love and good humor."--NY Times."Ravishing is the best word to describe Stephen Karam's new comedy SONS OF THE PROPHET...At once deep, deft and beautifully made, SONS OF THE PROPHET stares unflinchingly at the Gorgon's head of grief... Just as darkness shows off brilliance, the play's poignant comedy makes us see that facing grief is the best way to ease its considerable grip. Karam's nuanced, comic storytelling--a delicate weave of the spoken and the unspoken, the outrageous and the unconscionable--holds pain and pleasure together in startling equipoise, never trivializing either."--New Yorker.