MJTC Announces 2010-2011 Professional Season
By: Gabrielle Sierra Jul. 09, 2010
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (MJTC) will open its 2010-2011 16th professional season on October 16, 2010. The four-show season will feature one world premiere, two area premieres, and a holiday-hit revival.
The 2010-2011 season will open with the area premiere of My Name is Asher Lev, adapted by Aaron Posner from the book written by Chaim Potok. The play tells the story of young boy from a strictly religious Jewish family whose love of visual art draws him to painting and Christian ideology as he pursues life as an artist. My Name is Asher Lev will run October 16 through November 7, 2010.Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, adapted by Shari Aronson and based on the book by Eric A. Kimmel, returns for the holiday season. Originally produced in 2008, and again in 2009, the holiday-hit about a vagabond who defeats goblins and brings Hanukkah back to the town of Helmsbergville returns with MJTC's Ivey Award-winning puppets. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins will run December 7 - 17, 2010.The season will continue with Goats by Alan Berks, local actor, director, and playwright. Goats is a heartwarming, coming-of-age story of a young man who learns to embrace life's lessons while working as a goatherd in the mountains of Israel. Act I of Goats was a hit at the 2004 Minneapolis Fringe Festival, and will now be produced as a full-length work by MJTC. The play is MJTC's winter week-end production, and will play Saturdays and Sundays, March 5 - 27, 2011.
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