(TEANECK, NJ) -- Local playwright and author I.M. Gurin's brand new play, Life After Warsaw: The World of Isaac Bashevis Singer, will receive a staged reading on Thursday, January 18th at Debonair Music Hall in Teaneck. Presented by Black Box Studios, this event is FREE to attend, with reservations strongly requested at www.blackboxpac.com. Created in association with The Singer Trust, Life After Warsaw is based on the Nobel Laureate's autobiographical writings. Showtime is 7:30pm.
Life After Warsaw invites audiences into the world and creative imagination of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the great Yiddish writer. A lifetime student of Kabbalah, Singer exists onstage interchangeably as a ghost, as the 74-year-old winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a young, starving writer discovering his literary voice in Warsaw between the World Wars, and as a profoundly curious child in a loving, devoutly Orthodox Jewish family. Along the way, Singer always the master storyteller, introduces us, in his own words, to the people who had the greatest impact on his life and helped shape his timeless literary vision.
Under the direction of BB's Artistic Director Matt Okin, a cast of seven including Mike Gardiner, Zach Abraham, Shari Cohen, Alison Miller, Danny Hoffman, and Justin Jager begin the process of bringing this brand new play from New Jersey to Off-Broadway and beyond. Mr. Gurin's works include Twist of Faith, Second Chances (currently being revised and revived), Destinations, A Match Made in Manhattan, and more.
New and under-produced works continue to be developed by Black Box, at Black Box Studios and Black Box PAC's Writers Project, including pieces by the likes of John Patrick Shanley, Eric Bogosian, Craig Lucas, Paul Schrader, Beth Henley, Daniel Handler, Ken Levine, The Estate of Sam Shepard, and the Estate of Edward Albee.
Debonair Music Hall is located at 1409 Queen Anne Road in Teaneck, New Jersey.
