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The Jewish Plays Project (JPP) puts bold, progressive Jewish conversations on world stages. Their innovative and competitive development vehicle invests emerging artists in their Jewish identity and engages Jewish communities in the vetting, selecting, and championing of new voices. Fairfax is one of nine communities around the United States that is participating in this national contest program.
Twenty-two local readers read the JPP's Top 10 plays (out of 209 submissions). The local readers selected three plays, and on March 13 the three 20-minute scenes will be presented to our audience by David Winitsky, artistic director of JPP. Following the readings, the audience gets to vote for what they think is the best new Jewish play of 2016! Read more about the top ten plays at http://www.jewishplaysproject.org/
The three plays to be presented on March 13 are:
REDDER BLOOD by Helen Murray Pafumi
Sadie has heard the voice of God her entire life. But she has never answered back. After all, why her? As her parents marriage crumbles, and her own love interest takes off, Sadies life takes a comical turn toward the absurd. And in the midst of it all she must come to terms with her own worth and whether or not its time to let in the voice.
THE SON OF THE LAST JEW by Yoav Michaeli
Based on an episode from Yoram Kaniuks monumental book The Last Jew. Boaz is a young officer who returns from the war with shell shock and trauma, overwhelmed with guilt over his friend and subordinate Menachem, who died in his arms. He contacts Menachem's family, who find it difficult to go on with their lives. Standing before this grief, Boaz forges a poem allegedly written by Menachem and creates a new and heroic image of Menachem for them. What is best, to live with a lie that keeps you living? Or face a truth which is unbearable to live with?
TREIF by Lindsay Joelle
Shmuely and Zalmy are like any typical twenty-year-old brosthey drive a cool truck, they talk about girls, they geek out over music Except the truck they drive is a Mitzvah Tank, their dates are arranged by a matchmaker, and their music is chanted in Yiddish by a 90-year-old Chassidic Rebbe. When Jonathan busts into their truck claiming to have a Jewish soul mistakenly born in a gentile body, he brings with him the allure of the secular world hes desperate to leave behind. Inspired by the true stories, Treif is a road trip/buddy comedy that asks how hard you have to believe in order to belong.
Tickets: $18 adult, $14 J members or seniors (65+), $10 under 10.
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LocationJewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (View)
8900 Little River Turnpike
Fairfax, VA 22031
United States
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