{"id":244396,"date":"2011-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/dor-hadash-synagogue-presents-across-the-generations-play-festival\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:00:00","slug":"dor-hadash-synagogue-presents-across-the-generations-play-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/dor-hadash-synagogue-presents-across-the-generations-play-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dor Hadash Synagogue presents Across the Generations Play Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Playwright Martha Jane Kaufman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three Jewish playwrights to show works<\/p>\n

Three plays chosen from submissions from across the United States and Canada will be presented during the Second Annual Across the Generations Play Festival sponsored by Congregation Dor Hadash, San Diego\u2019s only Reconstructionist Synagogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased to showcase the works of three talented Jewish playwrights in our festival, which provides them an opportunity to present their works before an audience without mounting a full production,\u201d said artistic director Marcus Newman. \u201cThis year\u2019s plays represent an exciting range of theater experiences and deal with family relationships and gender identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman, a playwright and director, has directed about 40 stage projects in San Diego, including the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays. In 2006 he also wrote, produced and directed \u201cMoms in America,\u201d about three generations of American Jewish men.<\/p>\n

Playwright Stephen Kaplan describes \u201cExquisite Potential\u201d as \u201ca funny and probing look at the bond between parent and child,\u201d which asks the questions: What happens when a father comes to believe his little boy is, in fact, the Messiah and what happens when that boy grows up to be a man? Kaplan began his playwriting career in San Diego when his play \u201cAnd Jack Came Tumbling After\u201d won the California Young Playwrights Competition and was produced at the Old Globe Theater. A native of Los Angeles who currently lives in New Jersey, his other plays have seen productions at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center\u2019s American Living Room, Union Square Theatre, L.A.\u2019s Hudson Theatre, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was commissioned to write \u201cSix Seniors In Search Of An Ending,\u201d a performance piece performed for President Bill Clinton. Formerly Assistant Principal\/Chair of the Theatre Department at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the \u201cFame\u201d school) in Manhattan, Kaplan now teaches at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, N.J.<\/p>\n

Martha Jane Kaufman\u2019s \u201cA Live Dress\u201d delves into the world of Yiddish theater and gender identities in New York in the 1920s. It was inspired by a 1923 New York Times review of an English-language production of a Yiddish play that included a lesbian relationship. The production was ultimately shut down, the cast arrested and tried on obscenity charges, leading Kaufman to wonder if this occurred because the actors were Jews or because of the lesbian relationship. Kaufman received the Jane Chambers Prize for Feminist Theater in 2010 for \u201cA Live Dress.\u201d A Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellow, she has received awards and commissions from the Huntington Theater, the Program for Women in Theater, the Playwrights\u2019 Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and Young Playwrights Inc. Originally from Portland, O.R., Kaufman attended Wesleyan University and is currently studying playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.<\/p>\n

A joke about a father tricking his son into coming to visit for Pesach lies at the heart of \u201cStop Me if You\u2019ve Heard this One\u201d by Judy Klass. The play, focusing on a family\u2019s Passover celebration, is a tribute to Klass\u2019 father, who told her many of the stories, jokes, and songs she incorporated into her play. An experienced playwright and screenwriter, Klass\u2019 full-length plays \u201cTransatlantic and \u201cDamage Control\u201d have been produced in New York City; \u201cCell,\u201d produced in Kentucky, was one of three plays nationwide nominated for a 2009 Edgar for best mystery play. Twenty of her one-act plays have been produced nationally, and she co-wrote the Showtime cable film \u201cIn the Time of the Butterflies,\u201d based on the novel by Julia Alvarez.<\/p>\n

Featured presentations begin Sat., July 16, at 8 p.m. and Sun., July 17, at 2 p.m. with a rehearsed staged reading of \u201cExquisite Potential\u201d by Stephen Kaplan by experienced actors under direction of J Marcus Newman. The festival continues Mon., July 18, at 7 p.m. with \u201cA Live Dress\u201d by Martha Jane Kaufman and concludes with \u201cStop Me if You\u2019ve Heard this One\u201d by Judy Klass Tues., July 19, at 7 p.m. Actors and congregation members will read both plays in front of an audience.<\/p>\n

All performances take place at Congregation Dor Hadash, 4858 Ronson Court, Suite A, Kearny Mesa. Tickets for \u201cExquisite Potential\u201d are $10 adult\/ $5 student at the door. Donations will be accepted for \u201cA Live Dress and Stop Me if You\u2019ve Heard this One.\u201d For more information, email jewishplayfestival@dorhadash.org or call (858) 268-3674.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Jewish playwrights to show works Three plays chosen from submissions from across the United States and Canada will be presented during the Second Annual Across the Generations Play Festival sponsored by Congregation Dor Hadash, San Diego\u2019s only Reconstructionist Synagogue. \u201cWe are pleased to showcase the works of three talented Jewish playwrights in our festival, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":244397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Dor Hadash Synagogue presents Across the Generations Play Festival","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}