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TJT’s 2006/07 Season
iA Letter from Aaron Davidman,
Artistic Director of TJT
Traveling Jewish Theatre embarks on its 28th year at a time of enormous international upheaval. I ran into a friend recently. She said “I’ve been thinking about you.” “Yeah?” I said. “Yes,” she said, “how is it for you being a Jew these days?” The question stayed with me. How is it being a Jew these days? I know I’m not the only one asking themselves that question. Many of us are soul-searching, trying to understand the tragic events of the day and their implications. Many of us feel enormous pressure to take a stand. To pick a side. To stick with the tribe. But we know that no bumper-sticker slogan or cardboard signs can articulate the complexity of our experience as American Jews and as human beings. And many of us feel an impulse to come together and share our concerns with one another. Our theatre is one place to do just that. Theatre is community; it allows us to meet ourselves in new ways. For almost three decades TJT has been finding ways to make art out of some the most troubling areas of our collective experience and, at the same time, to celebrate the inexhaustible joys of the Jewish imagination. We aren’t going to stop now.
This season we offer readings of two new plays-in-development: Torn Ribbons, an important new work by Naomi Newman exploring the ravages of war on a very human level; and Moving a new play written by Israeli Playwright Ro’i Rashkes and myself. It’s a love story about Israel-US relations that takes place around the events of 9/11. Our main stage offerings consist of two significant but very different works. Rose, a tour-de-force solo play by Marin Sherman (famous for Bent and more recently the screenwriter of Mrs. Henderson Presents) tells the story of an 80 year-old immigrant and her fascinating and surprising life. Naomi Newman plays the title role. And we finish the year with Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman starring Corey Fischer as Willy Loman. For the first time ever, TJT plunges into an American classic exploring the Lomans as a conflicted Jewish family trapped in their pursuit of the “American dream”.
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B’shalom,
Aaron