Love and Israel™ explores the human side of Israel through the eyes of different writers who have a personal relationship with the country. A series of funny, serious, sexy and soul-baring monologues are performed by an ensemble cast.
Love and Israel’s monologues examine such subjects as coming of age in Israel, Israel as a woman’s first love, falling in love with Israeli music, Israeli food and even Israeli cats, a New Yorker’s experience in the Israeli army, being in dialogue with Israel, separating from Israel and how to say goodbye.
This show is distinctly non-political. It doesn’t attempt to answer the question, “So when will there be peace in the Middle East?” Instead, it explores what’s it’s like to be attached to a country that is at times hard to love, and is certainly not the kind of place you can just love and leave.
Created and produced by Sissy Block and Ilana Lipski, Love and Israel has been performed at these venues:
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•The Eighth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival, July-August 2007 - 6-Show Run
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•The 14th Street Y, February 26 and 28, 2007
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•The Makor Steinhart Center of the 92nd Street Y, January 23, 2007
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•Limmud NY in Catskill, NY, January 14, 2007
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•The JNF House, September 14 and 18, 2006
Selected monologues from the Love and Israel show have also been performed at the Hunter College Hillel, the 14th Street Y’s Kosher Style County Fair and Mr. and Ms. JewSA pageant, and the Israel Now! Series at the Riverdale Y as a program of JASA (Jewish Association for Services for the Aged).
For more information about the Love and Israel theatre production, e-mail: loveandisrael@yahoo.com
