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Jewish Plot is a shape-shifting work of meta-theatre by Torrey Townsend. What
begins as a witty reconstruction of a fictional Victorian melodrama about
antisemitism fractures in real time, erupting into a searing contemporary
reckoning with Jewish identity, politics and inheritance. Fierce, funny
and unflinching, the play asks what it means to create – and to belong –
amid historical trauma and present-day violence. Following a sold-out New
York premiere and recognition by Vulture as one of 2025’s Top 10 Plays in
New York City, Jewish Plot is daring, urgent theatre at its most alive.
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