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lison Luterman's play Saying
Kaddish With My Sister has
a deceptive title. Although
the theater piece relates to a period of
mourning, it is sparked by comedy.
Two very different sisters, reunited
by their mother's death, have not
resolved their differences. The mother,
spirit intact, watches from heaven,
decides to intercede and comes down
to Earth as a disguised character, con-
tributing to much of the play's humor.
"I love hearing the audience laugh:'
says Luterman, who will be in Detroit
for the first full production of her
work. "There is grief in the play but
quite a lot of laughing."
Saying Kaddish With My Sister,
introduced by the Jewish Ensemble
Theater last year as a staged read-
ing, will be presented Jan. 22-Feb. 17
at the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. Directed by Nicholas
Calanni, the cast includes Leah Smith
and Teri Clark Linden as the sisters, as
well as Loren Bass, Milica Govich and
Rhonda English.
"I learned so much about myself
from writing this play," says Luterman,
49, who in real life is very close to her
own sister.
"Although [one of the sisters in
the play] a performance artist with
pink hair is most like me because I'm
a performance artist with wild hair,
I'm part of every character in the play
— even the other sister because she
represents aspects of me.
"I played the mother in one presen-
tation, and that was very illuminating.
My relationship with my mother was
difficult and playing that part meant
stepping into her shoes and empathiz-
ing: ,

Luterman, who has loved theater
and writing poetry since childhood,
was president of her high-school
drama club in Massachusetts. She
went on to work with theater groups
while getting a bachelor's degree
in poetry from the University of
Massachusetts.
After assisting Haitian refugees in
Miami through VISTA (Volunteers

Playwright Alison Luterman: "I love

hearing the audience laugh."

in Service to America), she taught
English and accepted freelance writ-
ing assignments for newspapers and
magazines. In 2001, her first book of
poems, The Largest Possible Life, was
published. Her second book, See How
We Almost Fly, came out in 2005.
Continuing with teaching and writ-
ing after moving to California and
going through a divorce, she also
works with an improvisational troupe.
"In the theology of my play, God
takes different forms according to
whatever people worship in life
explains Luterman, who grew up as
a secular Jew and belongs to a Jewish
Renewal synagogue.
"The theology is the result of a long
inquiry I've been processing for a
decade. I've questioned how close we
can get to God and how we can relate
to God."

❑

Celebrating sisterhood enters
into the pricing for Saying
Kaddish With My Sister, which
will be performed Jan. 22-Feb.
17 in the Aaron DeRoy Theatre
in the Jewish Community Center
in West Bloomfield. Two tickets
can be bought for the price of
one for some performances
– Wednesdays, Thursdays and
5 p.m. Saturdays – if the word
"sisters" is mentioned or sisters
attend together. Performance
times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-
Thursdays, 5 and 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.
There also are performances
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, and
2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.13 (no
evening performance that day).
$25-$39. (248) 788-2900.