Oak Park resident Meredith plays Isaac Babel, a Jewish writer who keeps a journal in 1920 chronicling the war. That journal reappears 90 years later in the wreckage of a plane crash.
This spring at Steppenwolf, Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night is an elegant, witty, and perceptive dramatic reimagining of the life and legacy of Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel. The famed author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, Babel was arrested by the the Soviet Interior Ministry (NKVD) in 1939 and executed on fabricated charges of treason and.
A play that recently ran at the famed Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago intertwines the lives of seven individuals throughout fact and fiction, with a focus on the journals of real-life Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel, while dissecting the question of what is the truth and does it matter. Describe the Night, by ensemble member and playwright
Running at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater through April 9, 'Describe the Night' looks at the writer who popularized stories about Russia's underworld before being executed in 1940