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February 2nd, 20102010 Summer Fun Guide
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Arsenic and Old Lace
December 29th, 2009Performances, May 2010:
Sunday, May 9 at 2 p.m. [Mother’s Day]
Pluss Theatre
Director: Kelly McAllister
Join us for one of the most adored black comedies of all time. The play, a clever combination of the farcical and the macabre, centers on two elderly sisters who are famous in their Brooklyn neighborhood for their acts of charity.Unfortunately their charity includes poisoning lonely old men who come to their home looking for lodging. The two women are assisted in their crimes by their mentally challenged nephew who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and who frequently blasts a bugle and yells ‘‘charge.”Matters get complicated when a second nephew, a theatre critic, discovers the murders and a third nephew appears after having just escaped from a mental institution. In his adroit mixture of comedy and mayhem, playwright Kesselring satirizes the charitable impulse as he pokes fun at the conventions of the theatre. The workshop production
includes four fully-mounted public performances in the Pluss Theatre.
Arsenic and Old Lace
December 29th, 2009Performances, May 2010:
Saturday, May 8 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 9 at 2 p.m. [Mother’s Day]
Pluss Theatre
Director: Kelly McAllister
Join us for one of the most adored black comedies of all time. The play, a clever combination of the farcical and the macabre, centers on two elderly sisters who are famous in their Brooklyn neighborhood for their acts of charity.Unfortunately their charity includes poisoning lonely old men who come to their home looking for lodging. The two women are assisted in their crimes by their mentally challenged nephew who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and who frequently blasts a bugle and yells ‘‘charge.”Matters get complicated when a second nephew, a theatre critic, discovers the murders and a third nephew appears after having just escaped from a mental institution. In his adroit mixture of comedy and mayhem, playwright Kesselring satirizes the charitable impulse as he pokes fun at the conventions of the theatre. The workshop production
includes four fully-mounted public performances in the Pluss Theatre.
Arsenic and Old Lace
December 29th, 2009Performances, May 2010:
Thursday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 8 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 9 at 2 p.m. [Mother’s Day]
Pluss Theatre
Director: Kelly McAllister
Join us for one of the most adored black comedies of all time. The play, a clever combination of the farcical and the macabre, centers on two elderly sisters who are famous in their Brooklyn neighborhood for their acts of charity.Unfortunately their charity includes poisoning lonely old men who come to their home looking for lodging. The two women are assisted in their crimes by their mentally challenged nephew who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and who frequently blasts a bugle and yells ‘‘charge.”Matters get complicated when a second nephew, a theatre critic, discovers the murders and a third nephew appears after having just escaped from a mental institution. In his adroit mixture of comedy and mayhem, playwright Kesselring satirizes the charitable impulse as he pokes fun at the conventions of the theatre. The workshop production
includes four fully-mounted public performances in the Pluss Theatre.
Arsenic and Old Lace
December 29th, 2009Performances, May 2010:
Wednesday, May 5 at 6:30 p.m.; Opening Night Performance
Thursday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 8 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 9 at 2 p.m. [Mother’s Day]
Pluss Theatre
Director: Kelly McAllister
Join us for one of the most adored black comedies of all time. The play, a clever combination of the farcical and the macabre, centers on two elderly sisters who are famous in their Brooklyn neighborhood for their acts of charity.Unfortunately their charity includes poisoning lonely old men who come to their home looking for lodging. The two women are assisted in their crimes by their mentally challenged nephew who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and who frequently blasts a bugle and yells ‘‘charge.”Matters get complicated when a second nephew, a theatre critic, discovers the murders and a third nephew appears after having just escaped from a mental institution. In his adroit mixture of comedy and mayhem, playwright Kesselring satirizes the charitable impulse as he pokes fun at the conventions of the theatre. The workshop production
includes four fully-mounted public performances in the Pluss Theatre.
Lost Islands
December 17th, 2009(Iim Avudim) & Dessert Reception
Saturday, Feb. 20
8:30 p.m.
$9.50/General Admission or $8.50/JCC Members, Children & Seniors
Music by The Klez Dispensers
Director: Reshef Levi
2008/France, Israel, USA/103 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Faced with fulfilling your dreams or familial loyalty, what would you choose? When might a single choice define the rest of your life? This paradox is the subject of the Israeli box office hit, Lost Islands. The Levi’s, a large fun loving family, are laughing away the early 1980’s. But, when twin sons Erez and Ofer both fall for the new girl at school, Erez struggles to maintain his loyalty to his brother. The family’s simple existence becomes further complicated when Erez discovers his father’s secret and unwittingly triggers a family tragedy. When Erez then joins an elite commando unit of the IDF as Israel enters the first Lebanon war, he is stealing Opher’s dream. What begins as a breezy film evolves into something else; a family crisis set against a national drama. Lost Islands is captivating from beginning to end. Colorado Premiere
Grand Finale Sponsor: MorEvents (Betsy & Gareth Heyman)
Selected Awards & Festivals
Four Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) including best actor
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Zrubavel
December 17th, 2009Saturday, Feb. 20
6:30 p.m.
$9.50/General Admission or $8.50/JCC Members, Children & Seniors
Director: Shmuel Beru
2008/Israel, USA/72 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Zrubavel is the exciting first feature length film produced by the Ethiopian Israeli community. Filmmaker Shmuel Beru, who immigrated to Israel at the age of eight, shares what is a familiar immigrant story set within the very unfamiliar Ethiopian Jewish community of Israel. With an inspired soundtrack and intriguing characters the audience is quickly drawn into this unique community. From a powerful patriarch, once a person of prestige in Ethiopia, who now cleans the streets of Tel Aviv with great dignity, to the young grandson nicknamed Spike Lee because of his passion for making movies, the film provides a window through which we can view a family and a culture in transition. Although their attempts to take on the challenges of immigrants everywhere are not always met with success, the spirit of determination and persistence will not be squelched. Fans of Live and Become (DJFF 07), Black Over White (DJFF 09), and the Idan Raichel Project, this film is for you. Colorado Premiere
Film Sponsor: Dan Recht & Rick Kornfeld
Selected Awards & Festivals
Special Jury Prize at the Taormina Film Festival
Best Drama at Haifa International Film Festival
Boston Jewish Film Festival
Double Feature
December 17th, 2009Toyland (Speilzeugland), Making the Crooked Straight & Post film music program with Hal Aqua.
Friday, Feb. 19
3:30 p.m.
$9.50/General Admission or $8.50/JCC Members, Children & Seniors
Toyland (Speilzeugland)
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank
Germany/2007/14 minutes
German with English subtitles
It’s 1942, in a small German town, and little Heinrich Meissner wonders where so many Jewish families are going when they get on trains, as they seem to be doing more and more frequently. His mother, Marianne tells the boy that the Jews are going to Toyland and Heinrich becomes infatuated with the idea of going there himself, secretly preparing to join his best friend, David, should the Jewish neighbors ever decide to go to Toyland. When Marianne comes home one day to find David’s apartment empty and Heinrich gone, she goes on a frantic search to find her son. Her desperate search concludes in a most unexpected fashion. Denver Area Premiere
Film Sponsor: Kathy and Arthur Judd
Selected Awards & Festivals
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, 2009
Making the Crooked Straight
Director: Susan Cohen Rockefeller
2008/USA /30 minutes
English
Who in the world would abandon a lucrative medical practice and comfortable lifestyle in the United States for the despairing poverty and seemingly hopeless lack of effective health care in Ethiopa? Driven by the Talmudic teaching that “who saves one life, saves an entire world,” Dr. Rick has dedicated his life to providing medical care in Ethiopia. Traveling to distant villages, Dr. Rick shows that tzedakah need not be limited to the occasional financial contribution, but can also be a lifestyle of changing the world one person at time. Colorado Premiere
Wedding Song
December 17th, 2009Wedding Song (Le Chant des Mariees)
Thursday, Feb. 18
7:30 p.m.
$9.50/General Admission or $8.50/JCC Members, Children & Seniors
Director: Karin Albou
2008/France, Tunisia, USA /100 minutes
Arabic, French, German, with English subtitles
Set in Tunis in 1942, Wedding Song explores the longstanding friendship between two teenage girls, Nour (Muslim) and Myriam (Jewish), as they prepare for their weddings. Their lives are changed dramatically and their friendship threatened as the Nazis occupy Tunis. While these outside forces are encroaching upon their relationship, they also discover complex realities of marriage that differ significantly from what they had imagined their whole lives. This sexually candid and visually sensual film takes us inside the women’s hammam, and depicts the elaborate preparations for an “Oriental-style” wedding. Award winning French Jewish writer director Karin Albou explores feminine sexuality, the meshing of Jewish/Arab cultures in prewar Tunis, and her own Algerian heritage in this complex and provocative film that could also serve as a parable about contemporary Arab-Jewish relationships. Colorado Premiere
Film Sponsor: Lynda Goldstein
Selected Awards & Festivals
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Washington Jewish Film Festival
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival