Business & Professional Play Time JET hosts June stage festival. T II reenactment. he Jewish Ensemble Theatre The employees (JET) will present four new plays in its 2010 Seymour are divided into two groups, J. and Ethel S. Frank Festival of New Nazis and Jews; Plays, sponsored by Rona Rones. They will take place 7:30 p.m. and a simple Mondays, June 7-29 at the Aaron DeRoy company game Theatre in the West Bloomfield JCC and turns into much more. on Tuesdays at the Oak Park JCC. • To Life by David J. Bernstein; The plays for this annual festival are quickly rehearsed and read for audi- directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates. Performed Monday, June 21, and ences with minimal staging and no Tuesday, June 22. costumes, props or scenery. Afterward, Follow Gary and Max, father and son, the audience is invited to provide feed- through the major events of life: bris, back and ask questions of the director bar-mitzvah, marriage and death. Gary and often an attending playwright. tries to offer his best advice to Max The 2010 lineup is: throughout his life, and even beyond, in • Room 15 by Elyce Melman; direct- a hilarious and heartfelt fashion. ed by Jennifer Zubernick. Performed •My Shanghai Monday, June 7, and Baby by Esta Fischer; Tuesday, June 8. THE SEYMOUR J. & ETHEL S. FRANK directed by Harold When Penny Jurkiewicz. Performed Greenberg steps Monday, June 28 and into Room 15 of St. Tuesday, June 29. Matthew's School for In the late 1930s, Boys, she is hope- country after country ful that through closed their doors education, positive to the Jews fleeing social changes can Nazi infested Europe. be achieved. When Shanghai, an interna- Sean Sullivan, one MADE POSSISLE 8Y A GENEROUS DONATION FROM RONA ROVES tional city that didn't of Penny's most tal- atr,zr,. require entrance visas, ented students, has was the only place in his success denied, tai the world many could he becomes mentally escape to. deranged and Penny is Beginning in modern America, a suddenly given her most challenging Jewish woman traces her roots back to test yet. a Shanghai ghetto, where her mother • Reenactments by Bill Gibson; was an innocent victim of a bomb- directed by Joe Kvoriak. Performed Monday, June 14 and Tuesday, June 15. ing. When a global conglomerate pur- chases a smaller company, it acquires Tickets are available at the door its employees as well. To continue a of each performance for $5. company tradition and to evaluate For information or to purchase their new employees, the conglomer- tickets, call (248) 788-2900. ate hosts a companywide World War THE;. , _ T MOM 161.15111111V1113 1..341E, alFif i.rit'S gPii*35.211,Wa Va.,' CMG srgeta.... "al Kids' Photo Exhibit COTS "Through The Eyes of a Child" project, funded by a grant from the Young Women's Home Association of Grosse Pointe, involves 22 homeless children and their parents. The children were given a camera and lessons by fine arts photogra- pher and instructor Monte Nagler, then turned loose to express their feelings through photography. 5.0%