The Jewish Theatre Creating Contemporary Theatre for Over 30 Years

With ATJT Co-Founder Corey Fischer and Guest Artist Lise Bruneau
The Yiddish Classic by S. Ansky, Adapted by Bruce Myers
Directed by Mark Samuels, Lighting Design by Jim Quinn

Corey Fischer and Lise Bruneau in Rehearsal
Photo: Luis Delgado

In this Dybbuk for two actors, the most enduring play of the Yiddish theatre is boldly revisioned by Bruce Myers, a leading actor in Peter Brook’s company since 1970. ATJT Founding Member Corey Fischer plays nine roles in this adaptation of S. Ansky’s 1922 story of ill-fated lovers, wandering spirits and miracle-working rabbis. Mark Samuels returns to ATJT to recreate our 1989 production, acclaimed for its unique blend of humor and passion. Lise Bruneau is known to Bay Area audiences for her stunning performance as the angel in ACT’s Angels in America.

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These Are My Sisters

Created and Performed by Martha Boesing
in Collaboration with Director/Dramaturg Carolyn Goelzer

In this spirited, semi-autobiographical, one-woman show, Martha Boesing (director of last season’s Like a Mother Bear and Old, Jewish and Queer) explores her political and artistic roots in the 1970s women’s movement. She portrays five women, who tell their stories, remember, reflect, regret lost opportunities, agonize over the mess that history made of clear goals and purposes and, above all, testify to the great forgotten rule: that the personal is political.

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SEDUCTION
Performed by Leonard Pitt and Ruth Zaporah
Created with Rinde Eckert
Directed by Rinde Eckert and Jim Cave
World Premiere: April 3 - May 4, 1997
ATJT is proud to present this unprecedented collaboration between internationally acclaimed theatre artists Leonard Pitt and Ruth Zaporah, with award-winning performer/director Rinde Eckert.

Legends in Bay Area theatre for several decades, Pitt and Zaporah bring an amazing wealth of experience in movement theatre to this new work. In Seduction, they wordlessly explore the universal truths of yearning, joy and parting - revealing the subtleties of human relationships solely through physical gesture and vocal sound. Seduction will ignite your imagination as it challenges everything you think you know about the limits of human expression.

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In her new musical theatre piece, ATJT Founding Member Naomi Newman pushes the boundaries of time and gender to find in herself an indomitable eighty year old, a bitter teenager, a gay man, and a Jewish vaudevillian. With outrageous reverence, Newman juggles the how-to-live/how-to-die stuff of being human.

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Conversations with Elders:What Guides Our Lives
Discussions after select performances of Old, Jewish & Queer

Sun February 23 Sandy Low, rabbi, teacher of religious studies, activist
Fri February 28 Ronnie Gilbert, singer, actor, playwright
Sat March 1 Robert Hall, M.D., psychiatrist, poet, meditation teacher
Thu March 6 Dorrwin Jones, gerontologist, human rights activist
Sat March 8 Batya Kalis, adapter of gender-neutral liturgy and Torah, retired psychologist
Sun March 9 Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, members of Old Lesbians Organizing For Change
Thu March 20 Sylvia Boorstein, author of Funny You Don’t Look Buddhist, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center

ASL Interpreted performance on Sunday, March 2 (2PM)

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A Traveling Jewish Theatre has performed in over sixty cities around the world, including Chicago, New York, Berlin, Oslo, Prague, Jerusalem and Whitesburg, Kentucky.

Corey and Albert in a blizzard in Holland, Michigan January 1997. Our trunks full of props and costumes never arrived, but the show went on.
August 30-31, 1997
The Last Yiddish Poet, was featured at a festival of New Yiddish Culture, Toronto, Canada

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