Playing at Crow’s Theatre, The Division is a thorny, intimate work of theatre that examines inherited guilt, the relentlessness of eye-for-an-eye justice, and the seductive promise of being able to clearly define and banish evil forever, if only you could choose and label the correct side.
Julia Nish-Lapidus’ recently closed production sensitively explored the issues raised in Mark Leiren-Young’s Playing Shylock without purporting to offer any answers.
By Ilana Lucas /Feb 27, 2025
iPhoto caption: Adanya Dunn in 2017 production of Charlotte. Photo credit: Cylla von Tiedemann.
It started with an obsession, an idea I could not shake, a meeting with someone whose life seemed to hang in the balance, and for whom I might be a champion.