INTERPLAY JEWISH THEATRE launches its fifth season with a staged reading of EXQUISITE POTENTIAL, by STEPHEN KAPLAN. The two performances take place at DOBAMA THEATRE, 2340 Lee Road, in Cleveland Heights: SUNDAY, NOV. 8 & MONDAY, NOV. 9, both at 7 p.m.
The reading is directed by Scott Miller and features Curt Arnold, Anjanette Hall*, Wendy Kriss, Chris Richards* and George Roth* (*Member, AEA)
The synopsis: All parents think their children are great. Alan Zuckerman just happens to think his three-year-old son, David, is the Messiah. Alan and his wife, Laura, visit the rabbi to discuss David's possible divinity. Thirty years later, everyone older and wiser, it appears that Dad might have been onto something.
was honored in the New Jersey Playwrights Contest, DezArt Perform's Reading Series, Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival, and the Woodward-Newman Drama Award competition. Stephen Kaplan has won multiple awards, readings, and productions for other plays, including
The Book of Daniel, A Real Boy, For Unto Us, The Seventh Son, una casa/a home; and
In Mrs. Baker's Room. Kaplan, who serves as New Jersey's regional representative to the Dramatists Guild, will attend the Sunday reading and lead an audience talk-back.