Jest Newsletterdec2009[2]

JEST celebrating 25 years! NEWSLETTER December 2009 ANOTHER OPENING, ANOTHER SHOW

Another Antigone by A. R. Gurney Using Sophocles' classic play Antigone, Gurney explores the conflict at a university between a professor of Greek classics and a gifted Jewish student. Like the classical Antigone, who defied authority in order to bury and give honor to her dead brother, against the law created by her uncle King Creon, the idealistic student strives against the explicit caveat of the professor to produce her own modern version of the play as her term work. Through the dispute between professor and student, Gurney explores the feelings of assimilated American Jews and probes the latent anti-Semitism of the dominant Wasp culture. This fast-moving play ripples with many humorous quips and cracks at the expense of academic stuffed shirts, office politics, and student-teacher relationships. Dates: Opening night – Thursday, January 14, 8pm Wednesday, January 20, 8 pm Thursday, January 21, 6 pm Tuesday, February 2, 8 pm Thursday, February 4, 6 pm All performances at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem Tickets may be purchased through JEST (642-0908), including Group sales, and KLAIM (622-2333),

1/2-PRICE TICKETS,TICKETS 1/2-PRICE

Celebrating 25 years, JEST is offering young people, 25-18, half price tickets (40 shekels) if you appear at the box office at 7:30 on the evening of any performance of Another Antigone.

LAST CHANCE…

To obtain a subscription to this season's offerings. For those who subscribe to all 3 plays, the price will be NIS 215 for the three plays, a saving of 25 shekels per individual subscription, 50 shekels per couple.

In addition, each subscriber will receive one complimentary ticket to any one of the 3 plays of the season. Subscriptions must be ordered by no later than January 1, 2010. For description of plays, see preceding column (Another Antigone) and below: • The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder: basis for the hit musical Hello Dolly, in which the middleage character, Dolly Levi, shows her indomitable energies in capturing Horace Vandergelder as her second husband. Perfomance dates: March 10, 11, 17 at 8:00: March 15 and 18 at 6:00.

Passengers by Sam Bobrick: Have you ever wondered about the people sharing space with you at an airline terminal, train, or bus station? Join us at a Midwestern American bus station where we observe the real and metaphorical comings and goings of varied passengers as they wait: o a couple who have devised a bizarre way of making a better world; o a man who is planning to hold up the bus with intent to rob the passengers; encouraged by his wife but with no previous on-thejob training; o a young man who nabs his former sweetheart before she can say "I do" to another man…and soon comes to regret it. These and other characters make up the comedic and poignant play,

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Passengers. Dates: June 17, 22, 23, 24, 28. • All productions will take place at the theater at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. • Directors: Leah Stoller (Another Antigone and Passengers) and Tanya Meyer (The Matchmaker) TO SUBSCRIBE, SEND YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER AND A CHECK TO: L. Stoller, 20 Gelber, Jerusalem 96755, OR USE COUPON: •

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AUDITIONS! AUDITIONS! AUDITIONS!

OPEN AUDITIONS for the last play of the season, Sam Bobrick's Passengers, to be directed by Leah Stoller, will be held on Sundays, January 24 and 31, 2010, 7:00-8:30. CAST REQUIREMENTS • Men and women, ages 25-50 • For further info: call 642-0908 or write [email protected] INTRODUCING… Tanya Meyer comes to JEST with 13+ years of acting experience and 2 years of directing experience in and around NY and North Carolina, with a number of summer workshops, some off off Broadway work and more. Tanya has developed quite a love for dramatic and comic works alike, a great esteem for play- and other scriptwriting, and a great amount of respect for the higher power that allows her to create and evolve. Today Tanya enjoys weaving her desire to infuse social messages into works of comedy that are meaningful and light all at once. Tanya hopes that the audiences have a marvelous adventure through the course of the shows.

PERSONALS

Mazal tov to: • Yakir and Karen Feldman on the engagement of their daughter Maayan to Amit Meiri • Danby and Marvin Meital on the birth of a granddaughter to son Matan and his wife Sarah

Abbe and David Krissman on the Bar Mitzvah of their eldest grandson • Bobbie and Jack Krasner, celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Condolences to: • Karen Feldman and her family on the passing of their mother and grandmother •

… to all our audiences and friends!

...And finally, a thought about theater: OUR NEW WEBSITE

Enjoy our new website at: http://jest-theatre.org

LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS… …but we'd probably answer you faster if you'd email us at: [email protected]

Theater offers us a home to examine our fears and our joys. It offers us a sanctuary in which to confront ourselves and our world. Nothing can move us. challenge us, or enlighten us quite like an experience in the theater. --Tony Kushner, American playwright

DIRECTIONS TO RAMAT RACHEL Editors: Susan Lazinger & Leah Stoller KINDLY SEND US YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES!

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by bus: #7 from central bus station to last stop, Kibbutz Ramat Rachel by car: Derech Hevron south to Rehov Uman (Talpiot); left at traffic light, under bridge to traffic circle, enter circle, go around and left to end of road, on right is gate to hotel at kibbutz