Israeli Stage Presents HAPPY ENDING by Anat Gov

How do we treat end of life treatment? Israeli Stage, sharing the diversity and vitality of Israeli culture through theatre, is proud to present the American Premiere of Happy Ending as part of Season 7 - Jarring Questions through an Israeli Lens.

From the playwright who brought you the critically acclaimed Smash-Hit Comedy, Oh God, experience Anat Gov's Happy Ending. With this touching, funny and poignant look at one woman's decision to end cancer treatment, Gov does the unthinkable: making a comedy out of cancer.

Step through the doors of the oncology clinic, and take your first steps inside alongside Talia, a class-act actress, who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. Meet the incredible women there, struggle with them for faith and meaning, and consider what it might mean to let go. After Happy Ending's debut in 2012, Anat Gov died herself, but she wouldn't leave you without a laugh and a tear.

This Staged Reading features multiple Elliot Norton Award and IRNE Award Winning Cast: Nancy E. Carroll*, Alice Duffy*, Jaronzie Harris, Maureen Keiller* (of Oh God), Will LeBow*, Karen MacDonald*, Bret Silverman

Nov 13, 2016 at 3PM and at 7PM | 170 Beacon Street, Boston's Back Bay |Tickets $15-25 at: IsraeliStage.com
Performed in Celebration of Israeli Stage's 6th birthday

Anat Gov (Playwright) passed away in December 2012 after a long battle with cancer, leaving a significant imprint on Israeli theatre with six plays: Best Friends, Lysistrata, Househusband, Oh God, A Warm Family and Happy Ending.
Israeli Stage: readings of Best Friends and Oh God, and full production of Oh God.

Dr Daphne Hogan-Kaas (Dialogue Moderator) is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hopsital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Soroff's journalism career began at The Boston Herald, and he's written for everyone from People to London's Royal Academy Magazine. For the past 20 years, he's been the lead columnist for the Improper Bostonian Magazine, and he is the creator of itsmylifegetyourown. Israeli Stage: Jonathan has previously moderated Dialogue Reflections for Anat Gov's Oh God and Gilad Evron's Ulysses on Bottles.

Susan Block, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been a palliative care physician for more than 35 years, and served as Founding Chair of the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, an international center of excellence in palliative care education.