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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><FONT face=Georgia><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri">‘Whistle’ a dramatic,
engaging e</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">xposé
</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri">of
second generation destruction</SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>On
April 6, t</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">he
Jewish Federation of Cleveland will be hosting a panel discussion about a
</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>semi-autobiographical
play by Ya’acov Buchan called “</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">Whistle:
My Mother Was Mengele's Secretary.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The one-woman, one-act, one-hour play takes place </SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>during
contemporary times, but the central character is defined by events that took
place between 1939 and 1945, before she was born. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia>Tammy, the unwanted child of two Auschwitz survivors, has spent her
life in the shadow of their traumatic past and is a victim of the deep
psychological wounds they suffered during the Holocaust.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a child, she wasn’t allowed to cry,
complain or have companionship, and so she whistled to fill the silence in her
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is now a troubled,
tormented 45 year old who hasn’t been able to find love, peace or
self-esteem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so the play opens
with Tammy relinquishing a resigned, exhausted, barely audible sigh.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-outline-level: 3"><FONT
face=Georgia><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>A
story so profoundly grounded in unbearable personal pain is certainly permitted
to display the theatrical equivalent of confessional chest beating and
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial"><FONT
color=#202124>prostrate</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN><EM><SPAN
style='BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in'>paroxysm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But t</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>he
sigh sets the hushed tone for this exquisitely understated, modestly presented,
and quietly unfolding piece of storytelling. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"></I></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-outline-level: 3"><FONT
face=Georgia><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>“Whistle”
is a direct-address monologue delivered to all the ghosts in the room – the
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>people in Tammy’s life who are
alive no more but still haunt her thoughts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The always interesting and engaging
narrative is seasoned with recalled conversations, touches of dark humor, and
simple stagecraft.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The play takes
place on a black box stage surrounded by darkness, on which a small rectangle of
space has been carved out to serve as Tammy’s painting studio void of paintings.
Only an ironing board, two chairs, a h</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">ot
w<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">ater</SPAN></EM>
kettle and a painter’s palette with just two colors of acrylics share the stage
with the actor.</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>
Even the lighting shifts and brief moments of musical underscoring, courtesy of
</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Noa
Ben-Dahan and Gal Chapsky, respectively, are inconspicuous.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'></SPAN></I></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia>The play was adapted and is performed by England-born and
Israel-raised Hadar Galron, whose performance is masterful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s a mesmerizing musicality to her
presentation, as she smoothly navigates through the script with all the right
rhythms at just the right emotional pitch. And her comic timing, when called
upon, is spot on.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN></I> </P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>The
production was </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">recorded
live during a September 2019 staging at the</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri">
Municipal Theatre </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">in
Prague, Czechia.</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>
Directed with a velvet glove by Hana Vazana-Grunwald, the work is captured by
two stationary cameras that are largely unobtrusive save for when they
occasionally attempt to zoom in closer and momentarily lose
focus.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>There
is plenty to think about in “Whistle” and there will be no shortage of things to
talk about during the panel discussion hosted by </SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>t</SPAN><SPAN
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Jewish Federation of Cleveland.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Panelists include “Whistle” actor Hadar Galron, the Federation’s Hedy
Milgrom, Cleveland playwright Faye Sholiton, and Anne Lukas, board chair of the
Kol Israel Foundation.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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