The Title Is ‘Jonah,’ but It’s Women Who Make This New Production Soar

The real protagonist of Rachel Bonds’s sometimes slow-moving but beguiling one-act piece is its sole female character, a young woman named Ana.

Joan Marcus
Gabby Beans and Samuel Henry Levine in 'Jonah.' Joan Marcus

The title character of Rachel Bonds’s “Jonah” is prominent in roughly the first quarter of the play but then disappears abruptly, and for a long time. Other men will emerge as significant figures, but the real protagonist of this sometimes slow-moving but beguiling one-act piece is its sole female character, a young woman named Ana.

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