Sholem Asch's With the Current: Staged Reading

New Worlds Theatre Project Kligerman-Greenspun Performance Hall 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. Dovid decides to leave his young wife and child to search for a new religion. “I’m suffocating” he says. “The holy books …are all shackles around my neck. passes it on to son and then that son passes it on to his… As soon as our baby opened his eyes, we shackled him. There’s no sunshine in his life. No laughter. No life beyond our windows. We keep him ignorant – just so he’ll stay here. And

Directed by Stephen Fried
English Translation by Mark Altman & Ellen Perecman
Adaptation by Mark Altman, Ellen Perecman & Clay McLeod Chapman

New Worlds Theatre Project will be in residence at the Yiddish Book Center August 11-14. On August 12 the company will present an open rehearsal of With the Current 3-5 PM, Free.

Cost: $8/member; $10/nonmember; $5/student
Date: Sunday, August 14, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM

Date: Sunday, August 14, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM