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Join us for a season
of entirely original works as we offer One-Act Festivals of quality staged
readings featuring new plays with Jewish themes or characters.
Here’s what’s coming in
the 2007 Season of Staged Readings
June
21 and 24 – Tribal Families
Thursday and Sunday at
7:30 p.m.
4 Independent One Act comedies
by Mark Lambeck that take a special look at various family relationships.
The show is comprised of:
Little Sister -- a
Jewish publisher goes to a cloistered Abbey to try to convince his step-sister,
a novice, to break her confinement in order to attend his son’s Bar Mitzvah.
Skeptical Hero – when
his elderly step-mother calls for help with a series of mishaps, Artie
schleps over to her house to evaluate the damage and her state-of-mind.
Rosalie & Julie
– an Italian widow in her 70’s decides to convert when her Jewish widower
boyfriend, also in his 70’s moves in with her. Now all they have
to do is break the news to their children. Inspired by the classic
Shakespeare tale of star-crossed lovers.
Ben’s Story – a master’s
degree candidate uses his grandfather Ben’s personal survival story as
the basis for his thesis to contradict the “revisionists” -- Holocaust
deniers. But during the course of his research and interviews, he
uncovers a family secret that not only threatens his loving relationship
with Ben but also his degree work.
August 23 and 26
– A Biblical Sense of Humor
Thursday and Sunday at
7:30 p.m.
A showcase of the winners of
the national playwrighting competition that called for short comedies based
on characters from the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures). These are
the best of the entries that came in from across the country from California,
Georgia, and Florida to Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York City. |
