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aomi sits in a tent, offering one can be the other,' you don't
coffee, freshly baked bread, have to treat them with the hu-
manity you would extend to the
and her story.
She's a Bedouin woman group. Its forcing denial of indi-
who has run away from home af- vidualism and autonomy for
ter being raped by the stranger what is more acceptable."
she is forced to
marry. She is sub-
sequently circum-
cised by his
family.
She thought
she might find lib-
eration at an Is-
raeli university,
but is again disap-
pointed.
She misses
home but cannot
return as she has
shamed her fami-
ly by leaving. So
Naomi sets up
camp, calls it a
mobile Bedouin
museum, and tells
her tale to anyone
who might listen
— usually an au-
dience seated on
pillows and car-
pets in a darkened
theater.
Naomi, winner
of the 1992 Israeli
Drama Festival at Ruby Porat Shova I as Naomi.
Acco, is a story
Evelyn Orbach, JET artistic
told by writer/actress Ruby Po-
rat Shovel, a former social work- director, found Naomi at the
Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv dur-
er in Israel.
The play comes to the Jewish ing last year's Detroit Miracle
Ensemble Theatre in West Mission to Israel. Busmate and
Bloomfield June 13-18. Two per- JET board member Jimmy Au-
formances are being used as gust saw the work entirely in He-
fund-raisers — June 15 by invi- brew and brought a translated
tation to benefit JET, June 14 to script to Ms. Orbach.
"Jimmy kept telling me I had
to see this. So I did. What he
didn't tell me was that this is a
woman's story," Ms. Orbach
said. "She's just an ordinary
woman talking among friends.
"She doesn't give a judgment.
She doesn't stamp her feet. This
is simply her story."
According to Ms. Orbach, Ms.
Porat Shoval became friendly
with a number of Bedouin
women while doing social-work
gather dollars and support for the research. They began to talk to
Michigan Campaign for Human her about ritual female circum-
Dignity (MCHD), the coalition cision — secretly.
"It's not just about the act
gearing up to fight proposed anti-
human rights legislation target- though," Ms. Orbach said. "Ms.
Porat Shoval delves deeper, ex-
ed at gays and lesbians.
"I think this play is a wonder- ploring issues of what it means
ful foil. It deals with convention to be a woman in today's society,
and the submerging of individu- juxtaposed with ancient rituals
als into conventional modes. The She asks the questions: 'Where
other point is the emergence from are we now? Is there honesty be-
that and still not finding accep- tween sexes? Are men and
tance," said Karen Haydu, a women speaking the same lan-
member of the MCHD. "We see guage? ' " ❑
in this play, as in life, when some-
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Ms. Porat Shoval
became friendly
with a number of
Bedouin women
while doing social-
work research.
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