ARLEKIN ANNOUNCES NEW JEWISH PLAYS FUND
All Gifts November 27-February 4 will be DOUBLED up to $25,000!
Arlekin’s new JEWISH PLAYS FUND will help us to bring you critical art, critical stories, and critical voices during critical times.
The artistic work at Arlekin this season is about identity, culture, questions of displacement, war, home, and antisemitism. In this heartbreaking moment, there is great urgency for us to create projects that are highly visible, center voices which are being silenced or misunderstood, and to share stories that create human understanding, illuminate different perspectives, and invite audiences to wrestle with challenging ideas. The JEWISH PLAYS FUND will make this work possible! And we need your help!
Arlekin will produce three big, far-reaching, powerful artistic projects that center Jewish stories — Our Class at BAM, WITNESS Worldwide, and The Dybbuk at Vilna Shul!
OUR CLASS — Jan/Feb 2024
Ten Polish classmates — five Jewish and five Catholic — grow up as friends and neighbors, then turn on one another with life and death consequences Inspired by real life events surrounding a horrific 1941 pogrom in a small Polish village, this shocking, timely story follows their lives from childhood through eight decades in a new, contemporary production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s masterpiece, from director Igor Golyak. Info & Tix
WITNESS — Winter 2024
A NEW 2024 version of Arlekin’s original, award-winning documentary about Jewish immigration in the face of antisemitism. Inspired by the journey of the MS St. Louis, which left Hamburg in 1939 with over 900 Jewish people on board, only to be turned away, leaving the passengers stranded with nowhere to go and no escape. WITNESS shares stories of Jewish immigrants from around the globe through an interactive virtual theater experience at the nexus of film, theater and video games. Info
THE DYBBUK — Spring 2024
The US premiere of a new English translation of the ancient, fantastical, mystical Yiddish folktale is about love, ghosts, possession, and the yearning and continual search for a home for the Jewish soul and people. Adapted by Roy Chen of Tel Aviv’s Gesher Theatre, presented at Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, directed by Igor Golyak and featuring the Arlekin resident company. Info
We truly can’t thank you enough for being part of the Arlekin family and for your steadfast friendship and support over the years.
Please consider support for this critical initiative and give what you can.
May this somehow create light during this season of lights, even in dark times.
With thanks from all of us at Arlekin Players Theatre