"Mainstream readers are encouraged to visit the drama bookshelf to
locate this intelligent, probin collection filled with vivid
examples of how dramatic literature can humanize moral and social
dilemmas by embodying them in the personal irritations and
intimacies of daily life.-- Forward "Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays
is a refreshing collection. It refreshes our understanding of
contemporary Jewish theatre. The plays are authentic, challenging,
and inspiring."-- Leonard Nimoy, film and television actor"This
collection of plays is remarkable for its truthful, open-minded,
and nonstereotypical depictions of Jewish life."-- Daryl Roth,
producer of five Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, including Proof and
Wit, as well as Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change, and member of
the board of directors of the Lincoln Center Theater, the Sundance
Institute, and the LAByrinth Theater Company"Nine Contemporary
Jewish Plays offers abundant proof that Jewish theatre is not
limited to revivals, but is a field being tilled by many varied and
diversely talented playwrights."-- Isaiah Sheffer, Artistic
Director of Symphony Space and producer of National Public Radio's
Selected Shorts
Jewish theatre-- plays about and usually by Jews-- enters the
twenty-first century with a long and distinguished history. To keep
this vibrant tradition alive, the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture established the New Play Commissions in Jewish Theatre in
1994. The commissions are awarded in an annual competition. Their
goal is to help emerging and established dramatists develop new
works in collaboration with a wide variety of theatres. Since its
inception, the New Play Commissions has contributedsupport to more
than seventy-five professional productions, staged readings, and
workshops.
This anthology brings together nine commissioned plays that have
gone on to full production. Ellen Schiff and Michael Posnick have
selected works that reflect many of the historical and social
forces that have shaped contemporary Jewish experience and defined
Jewish identity-- among them, surviving the Holocaust, the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the lives of newcomers in
America, Israel, and Argentina. Following a foreword by Theodore
Bikel, the editors provide introductory explanations of the New
Play Commissions and an overview of Jewish theatre. The playwrights
comment on the genesis of their work and its production
history.
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