Tag: Ari Roth
DC JCC Continues Pattern of Promoting Viciously anti-Israel Plays
The Washington, DC JCC is staging viciously anti-Israel plays, funded by the Greater Washington Federation.
Teaching Chekhov To Recite The Havdalah
In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a troupe of Athenian actors, "rude mechanicals" according to the sprite Puck, meets in the woods to rehearse "the most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby." Puck frustrates the efforts of Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, and Starveling to practice when he turns Bottom into a donkey. "If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes not forward, doth it?" worries Flute, but in the end the play-within-a-play transpires on schedule, with all its absurd disclaimers designed not to frighten the court ladies.