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In Every Generation

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IN EVERY GENERATION

June 6 at 7:30pm

San Diego Repertory Theatre | Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Todd Salovey

 

One family. One holiday. Four millennia. The Levi-Katz family celebrates Passover again and again (and again and again) and while times, location, and languages change, traditions stay the same. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, the close-knit clan contends with questions of race, religion, and inter-generational trauma. The present echoes the past—and the past the present—as the family repeatedly reenacts the exodus from Egypt, each time asking themselves: must we define ourselves through trauma? Will we ever be free? And why is this night different from all other nights?

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SHAME SPIRAL

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SHAME SPIRAL

May 4, 9, 10, 14, and 17 @ 7:30pm, May 11 @ 2pm

UC San Diego |

Wagner New Play Festival 

A new play by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Natalie Griffith Robichaux

The Wagner New Play Festival features world-premiere productions written by the MFA playwrights and directed, acted, stage-managed and designed by the nationally acclaimed MFA companies. The plays represent some of the most original and groundbreaking new voices in American theatre.

SHAME SPIRAL Synopsis: When contestant Lauren S joins The Bachelor in its 23rd season, she’s prepared for all the drama if it means finding her one true love. What she’s not prepared for is the internet’s response to the revelation of her virginity and the subsequent fallout. SHAME SPIRAL engulfs us in the alternate reality of reality TV complete with false eyelashes, red roses, antiquated gender roles, and this persistent sense of shame that seems to lurk beneath every single moment. What’s the price we’re willing to pay to find true love? And why do the things that give us pleasure make us feel so guilty?

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Jewish Plays Project – In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Jewish Plays Project | National Tour

By Ali Viterbi

The Jewish Plays Project just announced their Top 7 finalists for their 8th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest, including IN EVERY GENERATION. “Selected from over 150 submissions, these 7 plays point the way to the future of Jewish drama: vibrant, challenging, culturally-specific, yet universal.”

IN EVERY GENERATION will  tour to cities across North America, including Houston, Charlotte, Chicago, Hartford, Fairfax, Palo Alto, New York, and more! 

For more information, please visit the Jewish Plays Project tour website! 

 

In Every Generation

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In Every Generation

Wednesday, August 22nd @ 4pm

The Barrow Group | New York, NY

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt

After two successful staged readings at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and the North Coast Repertory Theatre in San Diego, IN EVERY GENERATION will have its first New York public reading at The Barrow Group!

IN EVERY GENERATION is a mystical journey through continents, languages and generations of a family and nation’s stories. An Italian Jewish family joins together for Passover Seders year after year, era to era. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, sibling rivalries simmer, plagues fall, and miracles are both remembered and forgotten. IN EVERY GENERATION asks what happens to a people once they are no longer in danger? How does a community collectively adjust to freedom?