[Capdist-announce] A Shyna Maidel - " pretty girl" - May 13th through 22nd, 2022 by The Two Of Us Productions

[Stephen Sanborn]

For Immediate Release

Contact:  Stephen Sanborn, The Two Of Us Productions

                 (day) 518 387 4155     (home) 518 329 6293

 



WHAT:  A Shayna Maidel, Yiddish meaning "pretty girl," tells the story of
the reunion of two sisters after
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II> World War II, one having
survived the  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp> Nazi
concentration camps.  Produced by The Two Of Us Productions, the award
winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, in collaboration with
The Claverack Free Library.  Presented in the intimate The Marylin and Bob
Laurie Foundation Gallery at the Claverack Free Library in Claverack, you
don't want to miss this exploration of human strength and frailty punctuated
by moments of humor & hope.   

WHEN:  May 13th, through 22nd, 2022.  Friday and Saturday performances are
at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at 3pm.

*	Fridays -  May 13th & 20th  at 7:30pm
*	Saturdays -  May 14th & 21st at 7:30pm
*	Sundays -  May 15th & 22nd at 3pm

WHERE:  The Gallery at the Claverack Free Library, located at 629 NY-23B,
Claverack, NY 12513, right on the corner of Rt. 23 & Rt. 9H near the
traffic.  

TICKETS:  Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for Students & Seniors.  Please
call for Group Rates.  For advance reservations visit
<http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/> www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or
call 518-758-1648.  Make your reservations early for the best seats on the
date you want!  

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A Shayna Maidel .  "my pretty girl" .  presented by The Two Of Us
Productions


 

The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Copake
NY, is pleased to continue their return to live in-person theater with A
Shayna Maidel, the Obie and Outer Critics Circle award winning drama by
Barbara Lebow.  Performances are May 13, 14 15 & the following weekend of
May 20, 21 & 22, 2022.  Presented in the intimate Marylin and Bob Laurie
Foundation Gallery at the Claverack Free Library in Claverack, you don't
want to miss this exploration of human strength and frailty punctuated by
moments of humor & hope.   

A Shayna Maidel, Yiddish meaning "pretty girl," tells the story of the
reunion of two sisters after  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>
World War II, one having survived the
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp> Nazi concentration
camps. A Shayna Maidel is a memory play in that it is set in three times:
when Mordechai Weiss is born in 1876, when his two daughters (Rose White and
Lusia Weiss Pechenik) are reunited in
<https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-g
eography/new-york> New York City during the present (1946), and when Lusia
has flashbacks of her life in Poland immediately before and after the
Holocaust.  

Mordechai, his wife, and his two daughters were supposed to leave Poland for
New York, but before they could leave, Lusia contracted
<https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/diseases-and-conditions/pathology/sca
rlet-fever> scarlet fever and had to remain in Poland with her Mama.
Therefore, Mordechai had taken Rose (Rayzel) with him to New York, intending
to have his wife and Lusia join them after Lusia recovered. But the
depression, money troubles, immigration law changes and then the outbreak of
war traps Mama & Lusia in Poland. 

Rose, having come to New York at the age of four, has become fully
Americanized and has even changed her name from Rayzel Weiss to Rose White.
Lusia initially does not mind being left behind because she can remain with
her best friend Hanna and because she has fallen in love with Duvid
Pechenik. Lusia marries Duvid, and they have a child together, but
eventually Lusia, her mother, husband, child, and best friend are taken to
Auschwitz. Lusia, grieving for all of the family she has lost, arrives in
New York to live with Morcechai & Rose and to attempt to track down Duvid,
whom she believes with all her heart is alive and looking for her.

A Shayna Maidel  features Karissa Payson as Rose White, John Leiunug as
Morcechai Weiss, Constance Lopez as Lusia Weiss Pechenik, Sorelle Brauth as
Mama (Liba Eisenman Weiss), Cathy Hunt-Wheelock as Hanna and Mark Leinung as
Duvid Pechenik.  The Gallery at the newly renovated Claverack Free Library
provides an intimate performance space that brings the audience into this
gripping family drama.  

Performances of A Shayna Maidel are 2 weekends only - May 13th, 14th, 15th,
and the following weekend of May 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 2022.   Friday and
Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at 3pm.  The
comfortable & intimate Gallery at the Claverack Free Library is located at
629 NY-23B, Claverack, NY 12513, right on the corner of Rt. 23 & Rt. 9H.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for Students & Seniors.  Please call for
Group Rates.  For advance reservations visit
<http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/> www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or
call 518-758-1648.  Make your reservations early for the best seats on the
date you want!  

The Two Of Us Productions is well known throughout the Hudson Valley for
presenting quality theater, both musicals and dramas.  Their recent
productions of Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, Chicago, Les Miserables, next to
normal, Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor and Jesus Christ Superstar were all
recognized by the Theatre Association of NYS with multiple awards, including
outstanding work by the company, outstanding performance by the orchestra,
excellence in direction, and many individual actor awards.   

These performances are supported with funds from Hudson River Bank & Trust
Foundation, Stewart's Shops, Bank of Greene County, Rheinstrom Hill
Community Foundation, Greylock Federal Credit Union, and American Endowment
Foundation.  This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide
Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the
Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York
State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Columbia County
Council on the Arts dba. CREATE Council for the  Arts.

 

 

WHAT:  A Shayna Maidel, Yiddish meaning "pretty girl," tells the story of
the reunion of two sisters after
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II> World War II, one having
survived the  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp> Nazi
concentration camps.  Produced by The Two Of Us Productions, the award
winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, in collaboration with
The Claverack Free Library.  Presented in the intimate The Marylin and Bob
Laurie Foundation Gallery at the Claverack Free Library in Claverack, you
don't want to miss this exploration of human strength and frailty punctuated
by moments of humor & hope.   

WHEN:  May 13th, through 22nd, 2022.  Friday and Saturday performances are
at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at 3pm.

*	Fridays -  May 13th & 20th  at 7:30pm
*	Saturdays -  May 14th & 21st at 7:30pm
*	Sundays -  May 15th & 22nd at 3pm

WHERE:  The Gallery at the Claverack Free Library, located at 629 NY-23B,
Claverack, NY 12513, right on the corner of Rt. 23 & Rt. 9H near the
traffic.  

TICKETS:  Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for Students & Seniors.  Please
call for Group Rates.  For advance reservations visit
<http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/> www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or
call 518-758-1648.  Make your reservations early for the best seats on the
date you want!  

 

 

 

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