8— THE BULLETIN — Thursday. March 4,1993
The first question many . people ask: Alex ICiiner, director of the upcoming Jew i s h H e r it a ge T hea tre play AShayna Maiciel,is**\s : this play in Yiddishr
"I must say this at the outset," Klineir told The Bui-lei in, ''on]y the titk is Yiddish, li means *a pretty girr. The rest is in English. It's an English language play.
"And so, for the record," he chuekled, "I want to assure audiences that there is no need to bring along a translator."
A Shay ha Maide I, co^ sponsored by the Jewish Festival of the Arts and the Jewish Community Centre, opertson the Centre stage on Saturday, March 20 and will continue Tuesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 25, closing Saturday, March 27, Curtain time is 8 p.m.
When the play first arrived on the New York Stage, the New York Times
praised Barbara Lebow*s work as a post-Holocaust story that "offers a catharsis and a promise of embracing love."
For director Khner, the play is dramatically complex, setting up a series of "irresistible challenges" for an actor or director. From an audience point of view, he said, '^AShayna Maidel is absorbing theatre."
The play tells the story of two sisters — one a Survivor of concentration camps, the other brought up in New York since the age of four. The two are reunited in 1946 after a 20-year separation.
The sisters, however, have been separated by more than time and distance.
Rose is a completely Americanized working girl fighting for independence from her domineering father; Lusia, tormented by memories, searching for her
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missing husband, resists assimilation.
The playwright, said Kliner, "intricately weaves together past, present and future. Looking broadly at a dark period in Jewish history, she intimately pursues a family story, peeling away emotions arid exploring personal values."
Television viewers.may be familiar with the TV presentation. Miss Rose White. based on A Shayna Maidel.
The ultimate message of the play is durability of the family; according to Kliner, or as the New York Jewish Week called it "a happy survival story".
KHner is artistic director of Jewish Heritage Theatre. Together with executive cpbrdinator Tova Snider and technical director Clive Kapian, he formed the group in 1978. Since then, the three have collaborated in producing a scries of dramas, coniedies and musicals under the J HT banner.
Tickets are available from the Jewish Festival of the Arts, 266^245^and the Jewish Community Centre, 266-9111.
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Writer/ peribrmer Morris Panych presents the world. premiere of The StoiylOf A Sinking Man d\xniig Spring-rites 93 on (Granville Island.
This fifth annual celebration of hew Canadian plays kicks off March 5 with Panych-s comical and evpcr ■ ative new work. The pne-man play is described as a humorous and touching look at the dilemma of Nash, a little nobody of a man mired in mud.
By th(5 way, this is the first time since 1986:that Panych, a multiple Jessie Award winner, will appear in one of his own works. Sinkirig Man continues through to April
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Localite Howard Siegel will perform in two of the plays that are partpf Spring-rites. The actor/director appears in Cyber teens Iri Love and A Cage Without Bars. ,
In Cyber teens, Siegal has to wear a special mask for his role as Olderman. The play*s. Jewish playwright is Matt Decter front Montreal. It opens March 18, 8 p.m. and continues March 20, 25 and 28 — all 8 p.m. performances.
Cage, by Chris Humphreys, was last year's winner of the 24-hour Play writing Competition. It will be on stage March 24, 8 p.m., March 25,9 p.m.; March 27, 2 p.m.
Siegel directed the Jewish Community Centre's recent production of Horowitz and Afrs. Washington. "
Springriteis 93 also includes the buMaurier One-
Act Competition and Raw Theatre, a new component featuring 10 days of readings and works in progress from up and coming playwrights. There will also be a Composers' Cabaret and a 24-hour play writing competition.
Individual tickets or a festival pass are available by calling 685-6228 Shows will be at the New Play Centre at the Performance jWdrks,: adjacent to the Grahyille lisland Hotel.
comical hate/ lov? relation-ship of protagonists Beatrice v and -Benedick. Intertwined^ are sub^-plpts of "trueJove,'' intrigue and backst^bbihg:
■A really worthwhile venture. Much Ado tickets are available at 873-3311.
Well be-bop-a-lula and rama-lama-d ing-dong. That's the best way to describe Studio 58's production of The Kat Who Would Be KdoU playing until March
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Though the Cirst act is a bit slow, the pace quickens as romance hqats up with the
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But the production is a bit byerwhelming and busy. There's too much action happening at the same time so that one doesn't know quite where to focus. A.F.
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