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Five one-acts that explore the Jewish experience with themes ranging from the Holocaust, inter-marriage and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Plays can be mounted together for a complete evening of theatre or individually in an evening of one-acts.

 

Going Too Far (drama)

Do ideological beliefs shatter when faced with harsh reality? In a play inspired by the real life story of Rachel Corrie,  a Jewish family in Cincinnati is forced to confront a parents’ worst nightmare when they learn from the nightly news that an unidentified American girl has been killed by Israeli bulldozers while protesting the demolition of a terrorist's home in the West Bank. [1M, 3F, child (M)]

 

Tainted (drama)

Old and new worlds collide in matters of love, family and remembrance when a German ex-pat living in suburban Connecticut is forced to reveal to his Jewish girlfriend his family's involvement in the Holocaust after a Berlin art museum refuses to accept the donation of his family’s valuable art collection.  [1M, 1F]

 

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do* (comedy)

Jewish angst provides insights into young love when a neurotic twenty-something thinks his girlfriend has broken up with him because he is Jewish. [1M,1F]

 

Food for Thought* (drama)

Three American GI's trapped in a foxhole/four Jewish women imprisoned in a concentration camp. Facing the horrors of war, can recollections of food sustain them? [3M, 4F]

 

Shades of Gray (drama)

Inter-faith marriage once again goes under the microscope when a young couple gets into a heated discussion about who will officiate at their inter-faith wedding. What, if anything, can repair the damage? [1M, 1F]

 

 

*also part of The Survival Collection