In his evocative 2009 docudrama, “The Temperamentals,” the playwright Jon Marans examined the stigma of being gay in pre-Stonewall America, when the threat of exposure could leave friendships, careers and even lives dangling by a thread.
Mr. Marans’s 2005 play, “A Strange and Separate People,” at the Studio Theater on Theater Row, is in many ways a contemporary companion piece, though the risk of vilification this time comes not from the world at large but from a hermetic group with its own rules.
This engrossing three-character drama addresses the struggle for many to accept their homosexuality while adhering to their religious beliefs, in this case those of Orthodox Judaism.
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