NWTP: open rehearsal: Sholem Asch's With the Current

Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall New Worlds Theatre Project Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall OPEN Rehearsal New Worlds Theatre Project will be in residence at the Yiddish Book Center August 11-14 and will present an open rehearsal of Sholem Asch's With the Current. Even more provocative and controversial than his ‘God of Vengeance’, whose entire cast was arrested on obscenity charges when the play opened in New York in 1923, Sholem Asch dares to question the existence of God in ‘With the Current’, his 1904 play translated and adapted into English for the first time. As the ice begins to thaw, an uncontrollable river of passion and desire sweeps everyone up with the current… Directed by Stephen Fried English Translation by Mark Altman & Ellen Perec