Award winning playwright Richard Martin Hirsch (last year's superb The Quality
of Light) proves his versality in this engrossing character study of a Jewish writer
in crisis. A powerful performance by Michael Oberlander anchors this thought
provoking drama (skillfully directed by Howard Teichman) which also features
impassioned work by Imelda Corcoran, Meredith Bishop, and Susan
Morgenstern. Unlike the linear Quality of Light, Atonement (which takes place
in Oberlander's head) moves back and forth in time (shifts ably abetted by
Ellen Monocroussos' lighting design). A play bound to provoke much post
curtain discussion, Atonement is currently playing at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills.
I highly recommend it.
MARCH 13, 2007, THEATRE 40, BEVERLY HILLS.