Faygele
Aged 13, at his Bar Mitzvah, Ari Freed's world is shaken to its core when his dad calls him 'faygele', a Yiddish word related to the insult 'faggot'. Shimmy Braun's story of adolescent survival is a world premiere for the Marylebone Theatre. Hannah Chissick directs.
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