[Capdist-announce] The Classic Theater Guild presents: A Shayna Maidel

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The Classic Theater Guild of Niskayuna, NY presents:

 

A Shayna Maidel

 

To be performed at Congregation Beth Israel, Niskayuna February 29th thru March 10th 

For tickets please visit classictheaterguild.com

 

 

 


A Shayna Maidel …  “my pretty girl” …  


                          presented by The Classic Theater Guild


The Classic Theater Guild, based in Niskayuna NY, is pleased to present A Shayna Maidel, the Obie and Outer Critics Circle award winning drama by Barbara Lebow.  Performances are Feb. 29th, and March 2nd, 3rd, 2024, and the following weekend of March 7th, 9th & 10th,  2024.  Presented at Classic Theater Guild's theater space in Congregation Beth Israel located at 2195 Eastern Parkway in Niskayuna, NY., 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 World War II, one having survived the 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 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 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 during her time in New York 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, is repatriated to New York after the war 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, Ken Goldfarb as Morcechai Weiss, Constance Lopez as Lusia Weiss Pechenik, Deborah Lombardi as Mama (Liba Eisenman Weiss), Christine Vermilyea as Hanna and Mathew Leinung as Duvid Pechenik.

Performances of A Shayna Maidel are Thursdays Feb 29th and March 7th at 7:30 pm, Saturdays March 2nd and March 9th at 7:30 pm and Sunday matinees March 3rd and March 10th at 3pm at Classic Theater Guild's theater space in Congregation Beth Israel located at 2195 Eastern Parkway in Niskayuna with parking in the temple's Union Street parking lot. Tickets are $20. For advance reservations visit classictheaterguild.com.

You don’t want to miss this exploration of human strength and frailty punctuated by moments of humor & hope.

 

 

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.  Presented by the Classic Theater Guild in Niskayuna, NY, you don't want to miss this exploration of human strength and frailty punctuated by moments of humor & hope.   

WHEN:  February 29, March 2, 3 and March 7, 9 and 10, 2024.  Thursday and Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and Sunday matinee are at 3pm.

*	Thursday -  February 29th  at 7:30pm
*	Saturday -  March 2nd at 7:30pm
*	Sunday -  March 3rd at 3pm

 

*	Thursday -  March 7th  at 7:30pm
*	Saturday -  March 9th at 7:30pm
*	Sunday -  March 10th at 3pm

 

WHERE:  The Classic Theater Guild’s theater space in Congregation Beth Israel located at 2195 Eastern Parkway in Niskayuna with parking in the temple's Union Street parking lot.

TICKETS:  Tickets are $20 for adults.  For advance reservations visit classictheaterguild.com 

 

 

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