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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. Summary and themes
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...
Nov 3, 2023 · “Sabbath’s Theater,” now playing at the Signature Center, is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1995 novel, which won the National Book Award. It’s the story of Mickey Sabbath (Turturro), a ...
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 for The...
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...
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous.
- Philip Roth
