Job's Passion, by Israeli Playwright, Begins Nov. 9

Director David Willinger will stage a new production of Job's Passion, the controversial work by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin with original music by Ithai Benjamin.

Performances will be at The Theater for the New City beginning November 9th for a run through December 3rd.

The play is, "A re-working of the Job story from the Bible.  It brings the well-known Old Testament tale and combines it with the New Testament story of Jesus. While the biblical Job gets left on a dung-hill, this Job is impaled on a spit by Roman soldiers in a distortion of a crucifix."

The story follows, "Job, who starts off enjoying good health, a large, happy family and many successful business ventures, quickly gets knocked off his perch. A series of ever worsening bad news leaves him entirely divested of prosperity and family, no better than the many beggars who come scavenging bits and scraps from his table.  As he gets assailed by plagues, his faith in God is challenged."

Director David Willinger has directed at LaMama E.T.C., Hartley House Theater, Avalon Repertory Theater, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, the Interart Theatre, and Theater for the New City.

Playwright Hanoch Levin was one of the most prominent and prolific Israeli dramatists, known as "the bad boy of the modern Israeli stage." His play The Whore From Ohio will be presented at LaMama later this season, and his play Murder was at P.S. 122 last year.

The cast will include Colleen Jason, Michael Climek, E. John Okogun, Oliver Thrun, Zoe Mavroudi, Arturo Castro, Harvey Benjamin, Michael Vazquez, Primy Rivera, Eric Rasmussen, Freeman Borden and Ana Parsons.

Performances will be at The Theater for the New City, 155 1st Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets.  Performances begin on November 9th and will run through December 3rd.   

The schedule will be Thursday through Saturday at 8 with a Sunday matinee at 3. Tickets are $20. Call (212)254-1109 or order online at Theatermania.com.