God of Vengeance

"Diabolical ingenuity and rueful tenderness...a playwright with a particularly pungent and intelligent vision." -Ben Brantley, New York Times "A vivid panorama of a Lower East Side street scene crammed with grimy tenements, riotous store fronts and packed pushcarts...epic theatre...a fascinating new adaptation of Sholom Asch's 1906 drama." -Malcolm Johnson, Hartford Courant Jack Chapman runs a brothel on the first floor of his tenement and while he is prosperous, he is not virtuous. For his daughter Rivkele, however, Jack aspires for something more--respectability through her marriage to a religious scholar. But Rivkele's tender love affair with Manke, one of Jack's prostitutes, threatens to destroy the upcoming marriage, and with it, Jack's dream of redemption. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Margulies transforms Sholom Asch's classic mortality tale into a work of spellbinding power. Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends . The play received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world. In addition to his adaptation of God of Vengeance , his many plays include Collected Stories , The Country House, Sight Unseen , The Model Apartment , The Loman Family Picnic , What's Wrong with This Picture? and Time Stands Still . Mr. Margulies currently lives with his wife and their son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.