Israeli film star Meital Dohan will bring her one-woman show to New York. Entitled Bath Party, the show is presented by Bathtub Productions, co-written by Dohan, Karen Shefler and Ayelet
Dekel, and directed by Shefler (Blood Wedding at CSV and The Theatre
of the Riverside Church); it will run at the HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue between Spring and Broome) from August 21st through September 18th.
The show is Dohan's "personal story of her long-distance infatuation with America. She's a star in
her home country, but in America, she's just another immigrant in search of the
American Dream. Nearly nude with a bath tub as her pulpit and a video screen, a
Filipino manicurist and a gay Texan stage manager as her co-stars, the stunning
Ms. Dohan dances, sings and waxes on about everything American from nationality
and identity to the globalization of American culture. She draws parallels
from her experience to that of immigrants universally. The show is a 21st
Century compendium of pop-cultural ideas with an unrelenting beat and even a Charlie's Angels style action sequence."
Dohan has appeared in dozens of theater, television and movie
productions. In Israel, Meital was a recipient of the America-Israel Fund
Scholarships and the Cameri Scholarship for Young Actors. She received the
Theatre Academy's Most Promising Actress Award for the year 2000. Her film
credits include leading roles in Giraffes and God's Sandbox (winner of several
international film festival awards and openiIng in America later this month), with both roles earning her the Israeli Oscar nomination. She is
currently appearing on Israeli Television Channel 2's series Ugly Esti that was
awarded the Golden Screen Award for 2003.The remainder of Bath Party's artistic team consists of Ayelet
Dekel (as Israeli footage video director as well as co-writer), Adolfo Doring (American footage video director), David Bernard Ambrose
(video designer),
Rich Benjamin PhD (consultant), Annie Nocenti (Dramaturg) and Timothy Haskell (fight choreographer).Bath Party runs Tuesday through Sunday at 7 PM, and
Saturday at 3 PM. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased in advance by calling SmartTix
at 212.868.4444 or by going to www.here.org.