After Crystal Night
by John Herman Shaner

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Synopsis

Formerly titled After Crystal Night .

Seymour Goldstein’s Beverly Hills household is in for an emotion-packed weekend.

He has attended a meeting to determine whether Jewish militants should be allowed to speak to his B’nai B’rith lodge.

The ramifications of this meeting cause everyone in the family and those close to it to confront their roots and question their lives, their history, their future, their motivations, the depth of their assimilation, their relationships with each other and society and, ultimately, their personal courage and convictions.

What could be the unravelling of an American Jewish family turns out to be its salvation.

Full of humor and gut wrenching emotion, the climax is devastating, compelling, and satisfying, a play about Everyman for Everyman.

Press Reviews

"Serious stuff, to be sure. Yet the great strength of After Crystal Night is its sustained comic tone."

— Los Angeles Times

"A stunning dramatic piece [...] Powerful, thought provoking drama."

— The Christian Science Monitor

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1986
Binding Paperback
Pages 94
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573681233
ISBN-10 0573681236
LCCN 87138509
LCC PS3569.H3319 A7 1986
DCC 812/.54

After Crystal Night is a American play written by John Herman Shaner and published by Samuel French in New York (1986).

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