Return to Haifa Washington DC Jewish Community Center District of Columbia: Greater Washington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Rockville, Silver Spring - United States Theatre Sat 15 Jan 2011
2011
January 2011
Saturday 15 January 2011
Sat 15 Jan, 8 pm. 1529 16th Street NW, Washington, 20036. 202-518-9400. Washington DC Jewish Community Center - [events]
Cameri Theatre Production of Return to Haifa January 15 - 30 Adapted by Boaz Gaon from the novella by Ghassan Kanafani Directed by Sinai Peter Part of Voices From a Changing Middle East A cross-cultural collaboration from the Israeli company that brought their kinetic Hamlet to DC in 2007, this heart-rending saga tells the story of Sa’id and Saffiyah, who return to the home they fled and learn the fate of the baby they left behind. Now a young soldier, Dov meets his birth parents while cleaving to the Holocaust survivors who raised him. Performed in Hebrew with English sur-titles. With Incubator workshop readings of new festival work throughout February.