On their bizarre road trip, they meet a feisty young woman (versatile Marissa Keltie), and a lyrical older woman (sympathetic Lura Dolas). Julian López-Morillas, Adam Burch, and Marissa Keltie López-Morillas’ confession in Act Two reaches shattering powerful heights. As the “blind” Grandfather, Lopez-Morillas drives the car, evoking a troublesome, comic, but eerily sympathetic old guy. Julian López-Morillas plays Alex’s foul-mouthed, cranky Grandfather who has been hiding a dreadful secret since the War. When Alex narrates, he is engaging and when he interacts with Jonathan and his own Grandfather, he is a convincing throwback to a harsher world. As Alex, Burch preens and leers in his shiny sports gear. Led by the comically verbose Ukranian translator Alex (mesmerizing Adam Burch) on a wild drive to Lviv, Jonathan discovers a world of suffering and hardship. Jeremy Kahn, Julian López-Morillas, & Adam Burch. Kahn does a great job playing the eager, naïve Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan believes that the woman, Augustine, saved his grandfather from the Nazis during WWII, enabling him to escape to New York and begin an American life. Jonathan (energetic Jeremy Kahn)-channeling a young, self-important Rick Moranis-arrives in Ukraine intent on finding a woman in an old family photograph. Foer articulates the urgent need for empathy, today. Simon Block’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything is Illuminated exposes the unfortunate ignorance that swirls around us. Millennial Notes Foer & Block Show Why History Matters
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