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The Damascus Affair

Playwright David Adjmi's love-hate relationship with his Syrian Jewish roots
By Marissa Brostoff | 7:00 AM Jun 30, 2009

The Syrian Jewish community of Midwood, Brooklyn is famously insular, conservative, and colorful—in other words, ripe for theatrical adaptation. Playwright David Adjmi—hardly a good old boy of the community, he dropped out of yeshiva and later fled to Sarah Lawrence College, where he came out as gay—takes advantage of this in a new play, Stunning, ...