The result of the amalgamation is The Wanderers, which opens at London’s Marylebone Theatre today.

“I was working on two different plays in the summer of 2016,” Brooklyn-born Anna said.

“One of the plays was about an arranged marriage in the chassidic community. I’d always been interested in writing about an arranged marriage.

“And I was also working on a play that was very loosely inspired by a correspondence that had come out shortly before in the New York Times between Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer.”

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