NEW YORKER MAGAZINE

October 31, 2011

The Theater

Bluebird of Unhappiness

The comedy of grief in “Sons of the Prophet”

By John Lahr

“Ravishing” is the best word for Stephens Karam’s new comedy “Sons of the Prophet” (elegantly directed by Peter Dubois, at Roundabout’s Laura Pels). At once deep, deft, and beautiful made, “Sons of the Prophet” stares unflinchingly at the Gorgon’s head of grief – the kind of grief on which words have no purchase, the indigestible pain that never really goes away.  In other words, the suffering that an audience expects theatre to deflect with laughter, rather than to embrace.

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