HOSPITALITY

An interrogation tale inspired loosely by the detention of Colombia s Patricia Lara in the mid-1980s. Two INS agents detain and try to break a Latin American journalist and a Brooklyn rabbi - both suspects believed to be involved with terrorist groups. The interrogations go very badly and the tables are turned against one of the INS agents. ... To say that HOSPITALITY by Allan Havis betokens an auspicious beginning is an understatement of fairly large dimensions. Nearly everything about this production is first-rate. The script, an interrogation drama which brilliantly defeats the normally static two-characters-and-a-table configuration of the genre, not only is tough and taut, but gratifyingly witty and urbane ... -Nels Nelson, Philadelphia Daily News ... a trenchant political drama that belies its innocuous title ... An exceptional script ... -Hari., Variety_,