The Old Globe Theatre announced Wednesday it is participating in the National Jewish Theater Foundation – Holocaust Theater International Initiative – Remembrance Readings 2017 in honor of Elie Wiesel.
As part of the event, the Globe will feature a reading of Anda’s Love by Joshua Sobol, directed by Barry Edelstein.
Sobol is considered Israel’s most prominent living playwright and his Globe appearance will be the first English-language reading of Anda’s Love, a moving drama about the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust. The story begins in 2002: As violence continues to shatter lives in Israel and the Occupied Territories, Petra, a German war correspondent still reeling from a recent tragedy, visits Anda in her Tel Aviv flat. The two strangers talk into the night over coffee and cognac and discover a surprising and deep bond between them, dating back to World War II.
Sobol was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is a multiple-award-winning playwright, writer, and director whose work has been seen in theatres in Israel and abroad.
“The Globe is honored to commemorate a tragedy by joining our sister theatres around the country in this special series of Holocaust Remembrance Day Readings,” Edelstein said. “We believe that the theatre has a unique ability to help us comprehend events and experiences that defy understanding, and with anti-Semitic and other hate crimes on the rise worldwide, such comprehension is needed more than ever. Joshua Sobol is not only one of the world’s great playwrights, but his is one of the world’s most powerful voices of conscience.”
The National Jewish Theater Foundation – Holocaust Theater International Initiative – Remembrance Readings use theatrical content to create live events, held whenever possible, at simultaneous times and dates in venues throughout the United States. This year’s events, held on Yom HaShoah, Sunday April 23 and Monday 24, honor Wiesel, a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor who died last year at the age of 87.
Translated from the Hebrew by Roland Rees and Sobol, and adapted for American audiences by Edelstein, the Anda’s Love reading will take place on Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m. on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.
Tickets are currently available for subscribers and donors and go on sale to the general public Tuesday, April 11 at noon. Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for subscribers, donors, students, and groups. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE, or by visiting the box office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
–Staff