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Sabbath's Theater is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It won the 1995 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. The cover is a detail of Sailor and Girl (1925) by German painter Otto Dix.
Jan 1, 2001 · Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence.
Sep 10, 1995 · The bare bones of character and story are as follows: Morris (Mickey) Sabbath, a 64-year-old ex-puppeteer with fingers now crippled by arthritis, has lived for decades in a rural New England...
Oct 25, 2023 · The New Group production of “Sabbath’s Theater,” adapted by John Turturro and Ariel Levy, leans into the novel’s frank depictions of unbounded lust and gleeful disloyalty. Vincent Tullo ...
Sabbath’s Theater, which was awarded the 1995 National Book Award for fiction, is Philip Roth’s most controversial text, making his notorious Portnoy’s Complaint (1968) a liberating salute to...
Nov 3, 2023 · Sabbath’s Theater. John Turturro begins the New Group’s “Sabbath’s Theater ” with his pants down. He ends it with his pants off. In between, he masturbates on his lover’s grave, wears a pair of...
Complete summary of Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Sabbath's Theater.
