Jewish Plot

Playwright Torrey Townsend (The Workshop) sent shockwaves through the theater world with his controversial Off Broadway four years ago. Now, he returns with a world-premiere reconstruction of playwright-provocateur I.W. Bruntmole’s Jewish Plot, a long-lost Victorian melodrama whose first performance in London in 1889 unleashed a grand furore on English theatergoers.

At once hilarious and deeply personal, Townsend’s adaptation captures the crazy-making reality of contemporary Jewish American life amid unfolding, distant daily horrors carried out in the name of identity.