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Saturday, November 6, 2004 • 8 PM
Fox Theatre

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PEOPLE'S HISTORY

from page 61

Christopher Bremer is director.
"I try to write a play that I would
like to go see, and I hope I'm not
alone when I get there," the late
Gardner told the Detroit Jewish News
in 2000, when JET staged his
Conversations With My Father. "I
never thought I'd have trouble in
France and Germany with FM Not
Rappaport, but I surely did.
"I'm Not Rappaport was very suc-
cessful in Paris, but they tried to
change the fact the guy was Jewish
in previews because they thought it
would make people uncomfortable,"
Gardner said. "I threatened to close
it unless they left it alone, and the
French do
understand
money. They
didn't want to
lose their
advance.
"Germany has
done I'm Not
Rappaport a lot,
and they don't
change any-
thing, but there
was one produc-
tion in Berlin
where the actor
refused to say
the speech that
the French cut
out, and I
Evelyn Orbach
closed the play."

The Dybbuk
for Two People,
written by Bruce Myers and directed
by Gillian Eaton, will be performed
Dec. 1-Jan. 2 with two performers
acting out many roles. A tale of
unrequited love in a shtetl, the play
is a new project based on the classic
written in Yiddish by S. Ansky.
"It starts with a modern couple
telling stories about the same period
as was depicted in the original play,"
Orbach explains. "Music is inter-
twined into the story, and we will
have a live musician for this produc-
tion."
Three generations of Jewish
women are the subjects of Door to
Door by James Sherman, whose piece
is relatively new, recently closing
Off-Broadway. The comedy, directed
by Yolanda Fleischer, will be per-
formed Jan. 19-Feb. 13.
"The play explores how we take
what we get from our parents and
then make choices about what we
will and won't pass on to the next
generation," explains Adam
Rochkind, who has taken a number

of younger roles in JET plays and is
helping to promote this season's
offerings. Rochkind has appeared in
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon and
The Chosen by Aaron Posner and
Chaim Potok.
The title Door to Door references
"rdor v'dor," a phrase in the Hebrew
prayer book that means "from gener-
ation to generation."
Two one-acts are presented togeth-
er March 16-April 17, when Lavinia
Moyer Hart sits in the director's
chair. The Last Yankee, by Arthur
Miller, follows two men trying to
bring their wives home after the
women have suffered depression and
been confined
to a mental
hospital. 74

Georgia
Avenue, by
Murray
Schisgal,
returns a man
of apparent
material suc-
cess to his
boyhood
home, where
he encounters
recollections
from his past.
Orbach
explains that
the short
plays were
chosen
because of the
stature of the playwrights, the depth
of the characters and the insights
into relationships.
"We knew we couldn't do a season
about Jewish playwrights in America
without doing a play by Neil Simon,
and we chose Brighton Beach
Memoirs to run May 4-June 5," says
Orbach, who will be director. "As it
recalls Simon's own life, it is about a
Jewish family finding ways to move
on."

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IM Not Rappaport runs Oct. 13-
Nov 14 at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays, except Nov. 3, when
there is a 2 p.m. show; 7:30 p.m.
Thursdays and Sundays; 8 p.m.
Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sundays.
$27-$37. Season subscription rates
are available. (248) 788-2900 or
www.jettheatre.org