Theatre Review: Engrossing Clash of Opposites in SpeakEasy’s ‘Bad Jews’

BOSTON GLOBE
By Don Aucoin

From left: Gillian Mariner Gordon, Victor Shopov,
Alex Marz, and Alison McCartan in SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Bad Jews.”

MASSACHUSETTS---Families can weaponize your secrets, turn a searchlight on your flaws, and home in on your contradictions like a GPS whose coordinates are always set to one destination: your Achilles heel. That fundamental truth adds the crackle of electricity to Joshua Harmon’s “Bad Jews,’’ now receiving its New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company in a searingly funny production directed by Rebecca Bradshaw. Will it make us laugh? Or wince? Or, as is often the case in this mordantly entertaining and occasionally moving production, both? [link]