I Life Soul Sisters In a new JET comedy, the spirit of a traditional 19th-century woman returns to Earth and attaches Winter 'Hours: itself to her modern-day, independent descendant. Tuesday-Friday: Lunch and Dinner Saturday: Dinner Sunday: Brunch C. Dinner three roller-skating rabbis. Rebecca Delcomyn of Harrison, Diane Special to the Jewish News O'Brien Hill of Farmington Hills, Timothy Mc Kerman of Livonia, Paul play presented last year as a Riopelle of Chicago and Theo staged reading for the Williamson of Detroit round out the cast. Jewish Ensemble Theatre "I hope people will feel sympathy makes its professional full- with the characters and find that production debut this season for JET. It there's more to the play than the was voted a "must produce" by the audience at the theater's Seymour J. and laughter," Roisman says. "After the JET reading, I blended one character Ethel S. Frank Festival of New Plays. in with another. Nobody Gilgul, running Dec. 3-Jan. "I often have a character who 4 at the West Bloomfield Jewish pierces the membrane between the Community Center, presents Lois Roisman's exploration of the meaning of .real and the unknown, the sacred and the profane. I want Nobody's womanhood through a fantasy scenario. Gilgul audiences to think about the "My play explores the struggle little and big choices that the charac- between Eve and Lilith (traditional ters and the rest of us have to make." and modern-day women) and came Roisman, who lives in New about through what I have faced in Hampshire with her attorney husband, my own life," says Roisman, 65, who doesn't consider herself a religious per- has been writing scripts since retiring son but does take inspiration from as an organization administrator 10 mystical literature. Chasidic tales years ago. "I love to make people inform her work and life, which laugh, and I thought it would be a includes a blended family of six chil- hoot to have a character from a shtetl dren and six grandchildren. of the past .see what's going on now" A longtime writer of magazine articles The play follows Eva, a spirit from a Polish ghetto, as she finds an appropri- before devoting herself to scripts, Roisman's main career during the 1980s ate descendant through whom she can involved Jewish charitable interests. return to Earth and complete require- The playwright vvas founding execu- ments to enter the Garden of Eden. tive director of the Jewish Fund for Eva becomes part of Lily, a corporate Justice, a national public charity attorney, and tries to maneuver Lily's bringing Jewish partners to non-Jewish romantic relationship. efforts aimed at alleviating poverty in The title of the play comes from a the United States. Before that, she was line that conveys attitude. coordinator of the Council on "Eva explains to Lily that Lily is her Foundations, where she worked with gilgul, the person Eva is to inhabit the establishment of community foun- while fulfilling her earthly good deeds," dations across the country. Roisman reveals. "Lily responds with, "I don't find writing non-Jewish `I'm nobody's gilgul, sweetheart.'" material as satisfying as working with Roisman, who wants audiences to Jewish themes," Roisman says. "My go beyond the comedy and take note role model for writing is August of the serious issues ultimately expressed through the fantasy plot, has Wilson, who writes about black people taken her script to community theaters but uses themes that override the eth- nic point of view." before bringing it to JET. Nobody's Gilgul, included in the Nancy Kammer of Grosse Pointe anthology. Making a Scene: The Park is the director of the production. 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