Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
The Schmooze

Jesse Eisenberg to Premiere Holocaust Play

A play written by Jesse Eisenberg about a young writer visiting a Holocaust survivor cousin in Poland will be one of five world premieres mounted in the 2012-13 season of the New-York based Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the New York Times reported. “The Revisionist” will be the second Rattlestick production for the actor/writer, whose drama “Asuncion” was nominated for a Drama League Award this past year.

The 28-year-old, best known for his performance as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network” and his current starring role in Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love” is of Polish heritage, though he’s a Queens native and grew up in New Jersey. Nevertheless, he’s also a relatively new bar mitzvah, having undergone a 10-minute ceremony in 2010 as preparation for his part in “Holy Rollers,” which told the story of Hasidic drug mules.

With that rite of passage out of the way, he’s ready to give focus to his burgeoning role as a playwright, even when it means acting the underdog: “I also like writing about people who feel outcast because it’s an interesting topic to examine on stage. Feeling outcast is a deeply personal experience and to explore it in a public setting like a theatre is inherently dramatic and relatable,” Eisenberg said in a February interview with Rebel Magazine. “The Revisionist” is set to begin performances at the Cherry Lane Theater on February 6, with Kip Fagan directing.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.