The Jewish Theatre Creating Contemporary Theatre for Over 30 Years

June Bride

February 5 - March 15

Written and Performed by Sara Felder
Directed by Jayne Wenger

Sara Felder’s June Bride is the story of a traditional Jewish lesbian wedding — only with a little more juggling. The show takes us from an awkward first date to the culmination of the wedding ceremony: the shattering of the wine glass under the wedding canopy. In between, we meet the reluctant parents, the blissful brides, and the ageless spirit of the Jewish tradition. The play features flying spheres, compelling rhythms, sharp knives, a rhyming poem, a crystal ball, and hopefully, a strait jacket escape, in this hilarious and touching tale of family, tradition and marriage in modern America.

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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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Posted under 1997, Archive

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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Posted under 1997, Archive

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)

Posted under 1997, Archive

New Sunday Afternoon Series
A Traveling Jewish Theatre is proud to announce a series of
free Sunday afternoon events highlighting Jewish voices in the arts.
Call (415) 399-1809 for reservations. or e-mail: atjt@well.com

Jewish Women’s Poetry
Sunday, January 12, 1997 2pm

Naomi Newman and special guest Ronnie Gilbert read the work of such contemporary American poets as
Irina Klepsisz, Marge Piercy, Muriel Rukeyser and Alicia Ostricker.

Bravo String Quartet
Sunday, January 26, 1997 2pm

The Bravo String Quartet performing works by Samuel Barber and Shostakovich.
The Bravo features two Bay Area Jewish émigré musicians, formerly of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

Jewish Short Stories
Sunday, February 9, 1997 2pm

ATJT ensemble members Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg, Naomi Newman and Helen Stoltzfus
read works by four Jewish masters of the short story: Isaac Babel, E.L. Doctorow,
Leonard Michaels and Grace Paley. These stories will be introduced by Howard Junker, editor of Zyzzyva,
one of the best known West Coast literary quarterlies.

All events will be held in ATJT’s theatre at 2800 Mariposa Street, one block south of 17th Street,
between Florida and Alabama Streets in San Francisco.

Posted under 1996, Archive

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

Posted under 1997, Archive

NOW WHAT?

World Premiere: December 5 - 21, 1996
In the spirit of Nichols and May, ATJT Founding Member Corey Fischer and guest artist Nina Wise weave the day’s headlines, their personal lives, the collective unconscious and the inspiration of the moment into a series of high-risk, unscripted, completely improvised performances. A kinesthetic, verbally charged flight into the unpredictable.

Directed by David Dower (Director of the Z Studio)

Nina was last seen by ATJT audiences in her production of What to Call Home, a theatrical salon, presented at the Magic Theatre in 1994.

In celebration of the “festival of lights,” ATJT invites the community to join us in lighting the hanukkah candles for the first three performances (Dec. 5-7).

Posted under 1996, Archive

LIKE A MOTHER BEAR
World Premiere: Runs Through November 17, 1996

Searching for healing, a woman fights her way through a maze of doctors, nutritionists, psychics and even an Elvis-impersonating acupuncturist to finally discover the great “Bear Mother” of the imagination. To her own amazement, she finds herself traveling from the bear den of dreams to the Alaskan tundra where she meets the very real bear of the endangered North American Wilderness. In this groundbreaking work by A Traveling Jewish Theatre member Helen Stoltzfus, the possibility of healing lies only in linking the mythic, personal, and natural worlds.

Posted under 1996, Archive

The San Francisco Chronicle, Examiner, Bay Guardian and Weekly all agree…
The Fatherless Sky is a must see!

A Traveling Jewish Theatre’s
The Fatherless Sky

a fast, furious and funny play about…
Fathers and Sons
Palestinians and Jews
Kaballah and Country-Western Music
Jewish Identity and the American Experience
FLASH! SPECIAL PERFORMANCE ADDED ON MAY 18

April 19 - May 5, 1996
10 Performances Only!
A Traveling Jewish Theatre
At Project Artaud

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CALL 415/399-1809.

Posted under 1996, Archive