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Monday, June 13, 2011

In The Beginning - A Jewish Playwright's Festival starts today in Toronto at the Miles Nadal JCC

http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/index.html



Monday June 13, 7:00 pm


THE PEACE MAKER
 
by Natasha Greenblatt
 
 


Directed by Aviva

Armour-Ostroff



The Peace Maker, a political drama overflowing with music, takes us on one woman’s journey from Israel to the West Bank as her attempts to make peace backfire.
 
Tuesday June 14, 7:00 pm


THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE
 
by Kathy Kacer and


Jake Epstein



Directed by Jen Shuber



When a letter from the past arrives unexpectedly, a Holocaust survivor is forced to choose between his wife of 25 years and the woman he thought he had lost in the camps.
 
Wednesday June 15, 7:00 pm



HAUNTED
 
by Daniel Karasik




The widow of a murdered doctor becomes involved with her congregation's young rabbi. A play about spiritual hunger, and the various ways the spiritually hungry pursue the spectre of redemption.
 
Thursday June 16, 7:00 pm



TOUGH JEWS
 
by Michael Ross Albert
 
 


Directed by Jack Grinhaus



In the crime-filled Jewish ghetto of Depression-era Toronto, the members of a first generation Canadian family struggle to maintain the bonds that hold them together... and implicate themselves in the Crime of the Century.



Subscribers can reserve seats by calling Avery Saltzman at 416-932-9995 x221 or avery@hgjewishtheatre.com




In partnership with:



Supported by:

The Harold Green Jewsih Theatre Company Series








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