Reading of ANDY AND THE SHADOWS by Ari Roth Theater J
Postponed from Monday, October 29 to NEW DATE:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 at 7:30 pm!
Reading of ANDY AND THE SHADOWS by Ari Roth Directed by Daniella Topol
A family comedy with Freudian
hallucinations and pre-marital angst by Theater J’s Artistic Director
and award-winning playwright. Andy Glickstein is the son of Holocaust
refugees who fears he can't get married because he hasn’t suffered
enough. His family's gathered on the South Side of Chicago to celebrate
his engagement to clear-headed Sarah, but party preparations are
interrupted as Andy is pulled by memories and pre-adolescent
enchantments of his mother's bath-time stories recounting her dramatic
escapes from the Nazis. Andy's search for his duendé—the
Spanish expression of soulfulness and tragic ecstasy made popular in
Ernest Hemingway novels--leads him to make a movie mythologizing his
mother's triumphant legacy and, when that fails, his father's unsung
Zionist heroism, but he ultimately finds more meaning in a jar of jam
and a hospital bed that sleeps two.
A family comedy with Freudian
hallucinations and pre-marital angst by Theater J’s Artistic Director
and award-winning playwright. Andy Glickstein is the son of Holocaust
refugees who fears he can't get married because he hasn’t suffered
enough. His family's gathered on the South Side of Chicago to celebrate
his engagement to clear-headed Sarah, but party preparations are
interrupted as Andy is pulled by memories and pre-adolescent
enchantments of his mother's bath-time stories recounting her dramatic
escapes from the Nazis. Andy's search for his duendé—the
Spanish expression of soulfulness and tragic ecstasy made popular in
Ernest Hemingway novels--leads him to make a movie mythologizing his
mother's triumphant legacy and, when that fails, his father's unsung
Zionist heroism, but he ultimately finds more meaning in a jar of jam
and a hospital bed that sleeps two.