Four Passover Seders provide the backdrop for Ali Viterbi’s new family drama “In Every Generation,” which interestingly explores some well-worn questions about Jewishness as both a religion and a heritage, and how stories become rituals even at the nuclear-family level.
In the play’s first act, set in 2019, the Levi-Katz family gathers at the Los Angeles home that Valeria (Eli Katz) shares with daughter Dev (Sarah Lo), who moved back home after college and is casting about for her next step. Younger daughter Yael (Esther Fishbein), 19, is back home from Yale for spring break, and Valeria’s parents Paola (Carmen Roman) and Davide (Paul Dillon) have joined for the holiday feast — an undertaking that Valeria, it’s implied, wasn’t exactly eager to host.
