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May 10 - 11, Saturday @ 8PM, Sunday @ 2PM and 7PM  at TJT:
(Three Shows Only)
2 x Malamud

The Magic Barrel and The Jewbird
 

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The words of Bernard Malamud explode into vivid theatrical life when TJT brings to the stage his two most celebrated stories – darkly hilarious fables of assimilation and identity – in the Word for Word style. The Magic Barrel, centers on a hapless rabbinical student’s encounter with a mysterious, herring-eating matchmaker; in The Jewbird*, a feathered nudnik** disturbs the lives of an assimilated Brooklyn family.

 

 

"The rapport of the actors with their characters cuts so deep that the play bristles with life and breathtaking eccentricity. The physical specificity of the performances is as acute as the cadence of the language...

burnished to the point of perfection..."

-Karen d'Souza, San Jose Mercury-News

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*The Jewbird was originally conceived in collaboration with Word for Word, a program of The Z Space Studio.

 

**(yiddish) n. a nagging or awkward person

 

 

 

 

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