Cafe Baghdad
Venues:
Someday Lounge
January 23, 2012
Hoda's on Belmont
January 24, 2012
Lewis & Clark College
January 25, 2012
Portland State University
January 30, 2012
Adaptation & Stage Direction:
Sacha Reich
Performers:
Doren Elias, Brian Allard, Aithan Shapira & Shuhe Hawkins
Have Arab Coffee with a Jew
in the New York City of the Middle East.
It's 1928.
What? There were Jews in Iraq?
In the 1920s, Baghdad
was 25% Jewish.
Enveloped in the trappings of a Baghdad inspired café, audiences will be exposed to a collage of stories culled from memoirs, primary sources and poetry that introduce them to a face of a city different from violent and fractured Baghdad encountered on television and in the newspaper today. Step back into 1928, enter a profoundly modern and cosmopolitan city which presents a paradigm of Jewish, Muslim and Christian coexistence often obscured today, but reflective of trends across the Middle East and North Africa at the time.
Available for Touring Performances.
Links
Annotated Bibliography
Ethno-Religious Minorities in Iraq
Jewish Communities in the Middle East and North Africa
Jews of Iraq
Performance Archive
Mainstage
Loman Family Picnic
Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theater?
Kindertransport
Touring Shows
Naftali, Story Voyager on the Yiddish Seas
Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Well-Being: The Story of Lillian Wald
The Power of Light
Page to Stage
Taster's Choice: Fertile Ground 2013
My Father's Paradise: Chapter 1
Happy Hour with Sholom Aleichem 2009
Happy Hour with Sholom Aleichem 2010
People Should Not be Afraid of their Children: Grace Paley & Etgar Keret Shorts
Don't Mess with Savta: David Ehrlich Shorts
PJ Library Hanukah Storytimes
Staged reading of IB Singer Hanukkah stories
Academic Collaborations
Cafe Baghdad
Israel Onstage 2010
Israel Onstage 2009
Roman Berman: Massage Therapist
Israel at 60 Onstage!
Satellite Programming
In Darfur Reading
Pretty Brown Eyes Reading
"The Destruction of a People and Its Culture" Lecture by Natan Meir
Exile, Emigration and Displacement Photo Montage & Poetry Exhibit by Friderike Heuer
Grotest Maru
