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American Dreams

Hanoch Levin's characters live in one promised land
By Laura Collins-Hughes | 2:16 PM Oct 17, 2007

Yona Popukh, the hero of Hanoch Levin’s 1989 play The Labor of Life, gets his sleeping wife out of bed in the middle of the night to announce that he’s leaving her after 30 years of marriage. The heartlessness of his desertion is evident even in the words with which he tries comfort to her. ...