Voices From the Holy and Not So Holy Land at The Triad Theater

Fresh off his award-winning performance for “Best Storytelling” at the United Solo Festival in NYC, Steve Greenstein is excited to bring his show Voices from the Holy and Not so Holy Land uptown to the Triad Theater. His thought-provoking, heartfelt performance piece focuses on the humanity in each of his nine characters, avoiding the pitfalls of a political statement.

Voices from the Holy and Not So Holy Land is a show that speaks to the human truths behind the Mideast situation. Steve Greenstein’s collage drama of tension between Arab and Jew, and Jew and Jew, could play in Jakarta or Brooklyn. His approach is resolutely specific, offered through an array of 9 characters, including an Evangelical Minister visiting the Holy Land, a Palestinian burger joint owner in East Jerusalem, an Israeli veteran haunted by the horrors of war, an Arab woman, and a Jewish car salesman from the San Fernando Valley. “Voices from the Holy and Not so Holy Land” has humor and poignancy as Greenstein simply allows his characters to speak and loves each character he plays. It is why each one feels and sounds so credible and is so nonjudgmentally observed.

Drawing from direct experience living in Israel for 5 years, Greenstein wrote this play, basing some characters on people he’d met and the friendships and tensions between Israelis and Arabs.