Livestream on Fri May 3

Havdallah after show on Sat May 4

Music by Avner Finberg

Play/Libretto/Direction by Edward Einhorn

based on the 2nd Century BCE play

by Ezekiel the Tragedian

April 26 - May 12

Livestream: May 3

(Available for 24 hours after purchase)

at La MaMa

66th E 4th Street, New York

Tickets: $35

Join us at the post-show HAVDALAH Saturday May 4 as Jewish artists and others gather together.

Read the Librettist’s Note here

An immersive opera/play/Passover seder, based on the oldest known Jewish play, written in Alexandria in the second century BCE by Ezekiel the Tragedian. The audience gathers round the seder table or watches from the risers, joining the performers for a traditional 15-part modern seder. An opera composer, Zeke, has brought home his girlfriend Aliyah, a non-practicing Muslim, for the first time. Meanwhile, in the middle of it all, opera performers sing an adaptation of the ancient Greek interpretation of the Book of Exodus.

Running time: 90 minutes

Performers:

Zeke: Hershel Blatt

Pharoah, Reuel, God: Matthew Curran

Tzipporah, Messenger, God: Tharanga Goonetilleke

Aliya: Meena Knowles

Moses: James Rodgers

Avraham: Maxwell Zener

Cover for Moses: Cristóbal Arias (May 11)

Cover for Pharoah etc: Matt Mueller (May 9)

Cover for Tziopprah: Alize Francheska Rozsnyai (May 9)

Puppeteers:

Rebecca Jay Caplan, Yanniv Frank, Parker Sera

Music:

Music director/Pianist: Mila Henry

Percussion: Mariana Ramirez/Andrew Beall

Violins: Sunny Sheu, Johnna Wu

Viola: Sara Dudley

Cello: Paul Swensen

Crew:

Stage manager: Berit Johnson

ASM/Food coordinator: D Henry Hanson

Set design and related puppets: Tom Lee and Grace Needlman

Puppet design: Evolve Puppets (Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil)

Costume/Mask Design: Ramona Ponce

Lighting Design: Federico Restrepo

Art: Eric Shanower

Special fabrication/electronic effects: Jim Freeman

Publicist: David Gibbs, DARR Publicity

This program is supported, in part, by the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program); as well as The Schapiro Fund.

Also: Cabaret in Captivity May 18 at Jersey City Theater Center

Conceived by Edward Einhorn

Developed and directed by Edward Einhorn and Jenny Lee Mitchell

at the Jersey City Theater Center

located at 165 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ

Tickets $35, $20 seniors, $15 students

Saturday, May 18, at 9pm

With: Craig Anderson, Mel DeLancey, Seth Gilman, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Yvonne Roen, and Katarina Vizina

Songs and sketches written in Terezín/Theresienstadt, from Lisa Peschel's anthology Performing Captivity, Performing Escape and other sources. 

Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates

Original work written by Armin Berg, Robert Dauber, Sergei Dreznin, Grigory Flidlider, Hans Hofer, Vitezslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Jaroslav Jezek, Gideon Klein, Frantisek Kowanitz, Josef Lustig, Felix Porges, Frida Rosenthal, Erwin Schulhoff, Leo Strauss, Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg, Karel Svenk, Victor Ullmann, and Ilse Weber

Musical direction and piano accompaniment: Maria Dessena

Violin: Tiffaney Lane

Part of Remembrance Readings program of National Jewish Theater Foundation—Holocaust Theater International Initiative

Because of the cuts in the city budget, all our funding from the Department of Cultural Affairs has been eliminated. That was over $20,000, or one-third of the budget for our upcoming show. We are reaching out to other funders to fill the gap, but your contribution is deeply needed.