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Pacific Resident Theatre Online Production: A Bintel Brief - EXTENDED AGAIN
Extended by popular demand! 4 more online performances
Developed & Directed By: Carol Rusoff
Executive Producer: Marilyn Fox
with
Mark Adler – Marwa Bernstein – Joan Chodorow – Lisa Cirincione
Richard Fancy – Tania Getty – Steven Taub Gordon – Melissa Hoffman
Zach Kanner – Robert Lesser – Bruce Nozick – Sharron Shayne
Scott Sheldon – Jennifer Taub
Music by Klezmernetist – Horacio Romero
“A Bintel Brief”, Yiddish for “A Bundle of Letters”, was an advice column in the Jewish Daily Forward wherein European Jewish immigrants, living on the lower East Side of New York, unburdened their hearts and revealed their deepest truths.
PRT’s production of A “Bintel Brief” is an online dramatized documentary style performance of these letters, enacted by the PRT Company. Originally written in Yiddish, these letters were sent to The Jewish Daily Forward from 1907 to 1967.
Abraham Cahan, the editor of the Forward, dispensed shrewd, practical, perceptive and fair-minded advice to generations of bewildered Eastern European Jewish immigrants, helping them learn about their new country and way of life.
The column ran for eighty years, providing a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems and challenges ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to family squabbles; situations which arise when old world meets new.
Beautifully translated into English by Diana Shalet Levy and edited by Isaac Metzger, “A Bintel Brief” is a remarkable record of Jewish immigrant life in America.
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Date and Time
Friday Apr 30, 2021 Sunday Jun 6, 2021
Friday, April 30th - 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 1st - 4:00 pm
Sunday, May 2nd - 2:00 pm
EXTENDED:
Friday, May 7th - 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 8th - 2:00 pm
Saturday, May 8th - 7:00 pm
EXTENDED AGAIN:
Sunday, May 16th - 4:00 pm
Sunday, May 23rd - 4:00 pm
Sunday, May 30th - 4:00 pm
Sunday, June 6th - 4:00 pm
Each performance will be followed by a talkback on Zoom
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Location
Online
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