Max Olesker: Making the Cut review – up close and personal account of comic’s religious conversion

Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh This show about Olesker’s lengthy journey to becoming an Orthodox Jew in order to marry his partner is both elegant and nuanced ‘I would do anything for love,” Meat Loaf sang, “but I won’t do that.” Max Olesker would, if his solo show Making the Cut – based on his memoir – is any guide. It recounts the comic and writer’s conversion from liberal to Orthodox Judaism, a process required so he can marry his sweetheart – but which, in the meantime, forbids him from so much as touching her for years on end, and forbids much else besides. Secularists may be left reeling. Ole

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