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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="7"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:36.0px'><B>A SHAYNA MAIDEL and SeVeN this week<BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>An excerpt from choreographer Linda Kahn’s dance-theater work <B><I>SeVeN </I></B>will be presented before two performances of The Mandel Jewish Community Center production of <B><I>A Shayna Maidel</I></B>: Thursday, October 18 at 7 pm and Sunday, October 21 at 1:30 pm. SeVeN was inspired by the moving stories of Holocaust survivors Gerda Weissman Klein and Renee Firestone.<BR>
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And at the Sunday matinees, there will be pre-performance talks by local scholars and Holocaust education specialists who will illuminate issues relating to the resettlement of Jewish Holocaust survivors after World War II: <B>Alan T. Levenson</B>, Professor of History at the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies will speak this Sunday, October 21 at 1 pm. <BR>
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Literally translated as “a pretty girl,” <B><I>A Shayna Maidel</I></B> conveys the aftermath of the Holocaust through a poignant, imaginatively conceived examination of one divided family's experience. Two sisters separated in childhood—one raised in America, the other in Poland—are reunited in New York City in 1946 in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust. After a 15-year separation and the loss of most family members, they are nearly strangers and struggle to reconnect. <B><I>A Shayna Maidel</I></B> by Barbara Lebow was the first winner of The Mandel Jewish Community Center’s Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition.<BR>
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<B>WHEN</B>: October 18-November 4<BR>
Thursdays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm, and Friday, November 2 at 10:30 am.<BR>
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<B>WHERE</B>: CCC Eastern Campus Performing Arts Center (4250 Richmond Road in Highland Hills 44122). <BR>
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<B>HOW MUCH</B>: $12 for the October 18 preview, $14 for the October 20 opening and $24 for all other dates (October 21, 25, 27, 28, November 1, 2, 3, 4). Discount tickets are available for JCC members ($21), seniors ($22) and students ($12). On sale at The Mandel JCC (26001 South Woodland, Beachwood 44122), <a href="http://www.clevejcc.org,">http://www.clevejcc.org,</a> <a href="http://www.tickets.com">http://www.tickets.com</a> or 800-766-6048.<BR>
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<B>THE CAST</B>:<BR>
Bernadette Clemens*: Rose Weiss<BR>
Mitchell B. Fields*: Mordechai Weiss<BR>
Lara Mielcarek: Lusia Weiss Pechenik<BR>
Ron Cuirle: Duvid Pechenik<BR>
Natalie Green: Hanna <BR>
Jeanne Task: Mama<BR>
*Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.<BR>
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<B>THE ARTISTIC STAFF:<BR>
</B>Directed by Fred Sternfeld<BR>
Set design by Ben Needham<BR>
Lighting design by Cassandra Goldbach<BR>
Costume design by Aimee Kluiber<BR>
Sound design by Stan Kozak<BR>
Dialect coaching by Beth McGee<BR>
Stage managed by Darcy J. Lindner<BR>
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