Enclosed within 59E59 Theaters is Theater B, unpretentious and intimate in design. Walking in you find foreign writings across the wall, an intricate device flowing on a mildly moving set. Less than a hundred were there between Madison and Park Avenue to witness a history come alive. We were all subjected to a magnificent true story behind a 1486 Spanish Inquisition file, which was almost stolen from the Spanish National Archives. The interrogation of the detained Israeli professor opens up the forbidden desires awakened by the binding of eyes, the tragic love between a Spanish Priest, Andrés González, and his Jewish wife, Isabel. Andres’s confession of a double life reveals a testing of his conviction amid overwhelming intolerance and persecution.
The cast of Conviction is comprised of three actors, Ami Dayan (Professor Tal, Andrés González), Kevin Hart (Director of The National Archives in Spain, Juan de Salamanca), and Catharine Pilafas (Isabel). [click to continue…]
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