[NEohioPAL]Faye Sholiton's "The Interview" opens this weekend at the JCC Hal le Theatre

[Kenerup, Amy]

Faye Sholiton's THE INTERVIEW Opens This Weekend at the Halle Theatre

The Eugene S. and Blanche R. Halle Theatre is pleased to present the Equity
Premiere of Faye Sholiton's award-winning play The Interview from March 9th
- March 24th.  Esteemed director Tom Fulton will direct this drama about
complex family relationships, set in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Tickets are $14 - $18 and are available by calling the Box Office at (216)
382-4000, Ext. 274.  All performances are in the Halle Theatre, located at
the Mayfield JCC, 3505 Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights.
Performances are Thursdays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 8:30pm, Sunday March 10th
at 2:00pm, Sunday March 17th at 1:30pm and 7:30pm, and Sunday March 24th at
2:00pm and 7:30pm, with a special discounted preview performance on
Thursday, March 7th at 7:30pm.  There will be a sign language interpreted
performance on Sunday, March 24th at 7:30pm; a limited number of Pay What
You Can tickets will be available for this performance.  We will be offering
transportation for seniors to the performance on Sunday, March 17th at
7:30pm; for more information or to arrange a ride please call (216)
382-4000, Ext. 258. 

About The Interview
Marji Dodrill plays the strong-willed Bracha Weissman, who has agreed to
give her eyewitness testimony for a video archive.  Her interviewer is Ann
Meshenberg (played by Annie Kitral), the child of other survivors.  Before
long, it becomes clear that Ann has a personal agenda:  she wants to ask a
stranger what she could not ask her own parents about their experiences, and
just what they expected her to do with her unwanted legacy. 
As Ann probes the details of Bracha's life, Bracha revisits the pain she
must have inflicted on her own estranged daughter, Rifka (Kathryn Wolfe
Sebo).  With Ann as her guide, Rifka as her conscience, and well-meaning
videographer (Michael Roache) as her witness, Bracha leads all of them to
new levels of understanding and forgiveness.
The Interview has won national new play competitions in Dayton, OH,
Rochester, MN, and Charlotte, NC.  It has had ten professional staged
readings, from New York to Los Angeles, and four critically-acclaimed
community productions, including the workshop production at Notre Dame
College in 1998, featuring Annie Kitral as Bracha.  Excerpts from the script
have been published in Best Stage Scenes 1998 and in Best Women's Stage
Monologues 1998, both by Smith & Kraus Publishers.  It won an Individual
Artists Grant from the State of Ohio in 2000.
About Faye Sholiton
Faye Sholiton, a longtime writer for the Cleveland Jewish News and other
regional and national publications, shifted her emphasis to playwriting in
1994.  In 1996, she was invited to join the Playwrights' Unit at The
Cleveland Play House, where she has developed all her work.  Her newsroom
comedy, The Good Times, was named finalist in three national competitions:
the Writer's Digest Writing Awards; the South Carolina Playwright Festival;
and the Reva Shiner New Play Competition.
Currently, she is writing a play in memory of David Mark Berger, the Shaker
Heights native who was killed by terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games in
1972.  The play was commissioned by the JCC Halle Theatre, where Sholiton
has worked for the past three seasons as part-time dramaturg.