Last year, New Rep sadly said goodbye to Joan Parker, former five-year-member of our Board of Directors, who continued her support by joining the Advisory Council. Joan strongly felt that New Rep’s programming gave young people the opportunity to experience what she called “the transformative power of theatre.”
Our inaugural Next Rep Black Box Festival is dedicated to Joan and demonstrates the kind of theatre she was passionate about.
IN BETWEEN
Written and performed by Ibrahim Miari
APR 4-20/2014
Black Box Theater
70 minutes without intermission.
With humor, playwright and performer Ibrahim Miari recalls his childhood in Acco, Israel. Son of a Palestinian-Muslim father and a Jewish-Israeli mother, Miari tells the story of his extraordinary upbringing, memories of his Jewish and Palestinian grandmothers, and war. When he chooses to marry a Jewish-American woman, he ultimately is caught again between deeply divided communities.
“A valuable contribution to our awareness of the kind of issue which we are so often only too happy to ignore.”
The Jewish Telegraph, England
New Rep's NEXT REP BLACK BOX FESTIVAL is Dedicated to Our Friend, Joan Parker