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This Night (March 2004)
Written by
Robert Majzels
Tamar
Ehrlich -
Paintings
Tamar Ehrlich was born
in Poland and survived the war there with her
parents. She studied Life drawing, and colour design and the
works on display here
show the influence of years of Chinese brush painting.
Tamar says these paintings helped her deal with the memories
of those
horrendous times. They are also a way to share with new
generations,
something that is often difficult to put into words.
 Howard
Jerome*
- HELLMAN
Jerome is a veteran
professional actor, a singer, writer, teacher, director and
producer. As an actor Jerome’s theatre credits are lengthy
and varied, from Harold Ballard in ON ICE AND MEN at Theatre
Passe Muraille, to Aranow in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS at TFT/CentreStage.
Other
Selected theatre credits include dramatic and comedy roles
in THE BOURGOIS GENTLEMAN at Canadian Stage, SKIN DEEP - R.
H. Thompson – Theatre Plus, RUN FOR YOUR WIFE and GOVERNMENT
INSPECTOR at Theatre Plus; as well as Musicals such as A
FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORM at Leah Posluns
Theatre, LIVING LEGEND at Canadian Rep. Co., KENSINGTON
MARKET at Theatre Centre and I DO, I DO at Camelot Theatre.
Jerome
also appears regularly on TV, currently as Zelig Piekes in
MAX GLICK, the role he created in the feature film, THE
OUTSIDE CHANCE OF MAXIMILLIAN GLICK. His feature film
credits include THE MIND FIELDS, SAM AND ME and THE GOOD
MOTHER.
Jack
Kennedy
- DAVID
Jack is a recent
graduate from the Department of Theatre at York University.
Since school ended he has toured North America with several
shows but is quite pleased to be making Toronto his home
once again. Jack could most recently be found playing Merlyn
in Solar Stage's production of The Sword in the
Stone
and he can be heard as the voice of "Buck
the Beaver" in the upcoming television series Unzipped.
When not performing, Jack is an acting coach for the
Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. This is
Jack's first production with Teatron and he is
thrilled to be working on This Night.
 Jim
MacLachlan
- STAGE MANAGER
Jim has stage-managed
major productions by Act II Studio of A Murder is
Announced, The Dreamers, The Life and
Death of King John, and Waiting in the Wings.
After directing Oxygen at the University of Toronto
and Carleton University in 2003, he realizes he would rather
be a stage manager.
 Robert
Mazes
- PLAYWRIGHT
Robert Majzels
is an accomplished novelist, Governor General’s Award
winning translator, as wells as a playwright, and teacher.
He was born in Montreal, Canada in 1950, graduated from
Concordia University (MA, English Literature) in 1986, and
taught creative writing there for twelve years.
His first novel,
Hellman's Scrapbook (Cormorant Press, Ontario, 1992),
was hailed by The Globe and Mail as "a huge, complex
and extraordinarily rewarding novel," while The Montreal
Gazette described it as "daring in form, political,
eclectic in setting and character and masterfully threaded
with an intriguing story line."
City of Forgetting,
Robert Majzels’ second novel, published by Mercury Press
(Toronto, Ontario) and short-listed for the 1998 QSPELL
Fiction Award in Montréal, was described by
Canada’s Globe and Mail as “a novel of Beckettian
inertia combined with Joyceian allusiveness... a formidable
and esoteric discourse on power, decadence and remembering.”
The French translation by Claire Dé, titled Montréal
barbare, and published by Les Éditions des Intouchables
(Montreal, Quebec) in 2000, won Quebec’s QSPELL prize for
translation. His third novel, Apikoros Sleuth, is
forthcoming in 2003 in a co-publication by Mercury Press in
Toronto and Potes & Poets in the US.
He has translated,
from the French, a novel and a collection of stories by Anne
Dandurand, as well as three novels by France Daigle,
including Just Fine (House of Anansi, Toronto,
Ontario, 1999), for which he won the 2000 Governor General’s
Award of Canada. With Erin Mouré he has translated two books
of poetry by Nicole Brossard: Installations (Muses
Company, 2000), and Museum of Bone and Water (House
of Anansi, forthcoming, 2002).
His full-length play
This Night won first prize both in the 1991 Dorothy
Silver Awards (Cleveland Ohio, USA) and the 1994 Canadian
Jewish Playwrighting Competition. Robert also worked as a
script consultant and translator with world-renowned
Canadian filmmaker Claude Jutra in 1986, and for the film,
Holding Our Ground, a 1988 National Film Board
production by Ann Henderson.
Between 2000 and 2002,
Robert lived, worked and studied the Chinese language in
Beijing, People’s Republic of China. He returned to Canada
in July 2002, where he is presently working on a fourth
novel and translating another book by France Daigle.
 David
Rosser*
- BENNY
Selected
theatre credits:
MAKE ME A MATCH,
VICTORIA PLAYHOUSE/ COACHING MATTERS, SCORE
PRODUCTIONS/ TOM JONES: THE MUSICAL, STAGE BY STAGE
CO./ THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE, STAGEWEST THEATRE/
THE LAST RESORT, VICTORIA PLAYHOUSE/ MAMMA MIA,
MIRVISH/LITTLE STAR PROD/ SOCIAL SECURITY, WINNIPEG
JEWISH THEATRE/ BOOMERS, PRESTON, STAGE WEST,
MISSISSAUGA/ FORBIDDEN BROADWAY...STRIKES BACK!,
LIMELIGHT DINNER THEATRE/ THE SUNSHINE BOYS, DRAYTON
FESTIVAL THEATRE/ HARD HATS: THE MUSICAL, LIGHTHOUSE
FESTIVAL THEATRE/ A FLEA IN HER EAR, DRAYTON FESTIVAL
THEATRE/ YOU'LL GET USED TO IT...THE WAR SHOW,
DRAYTON FESTIVAL THEATRE/ CABARET, STAGE COMPANY/
A FAMILY REUNION, STAGE COMPANY/ SLEUTH, STAGE
COMPANY/ PATIENT VIRTUE, STAGE COMPANY/ NO SEX
PLEASE...WE'RE BRITISH, STAGE COMPANY/ LEND ME A
TENOR, DRAYTON FESITIVAL THEATRE/ CHEZ NORA,
SMILE THEATRE CO./ A FUNNY THING HAPPENED..., THEATRE
AQUARIUS/ TWELFTH NIGHT, SUDBURY THEATRE CTRE./
GUYS AND DOLLS, SUDBURY THEATRE CTRE/ PRIVATE LIVES,
ORILLA OPERA HOUSE/ HARVEY, ORILLA OPERA HOUSE/
GIRLS IN THE GANG, THE GRAND THEATRE/ THE GREATEST
LITTLE SIGN....SHOW ON EARTH, SHOW OF HANDS THEATRE
PRODS/ A KIND OF MADNESS, LEAH POSLUNS THEATRE PRODS/
THIN ICE, MUSKOKA FESTIVAL/NAC/ I DO, I DO,
SPOTLIGHT THEATRE/ THE MOUSETRAP, TORONTO TRUCK
THEATRE/ THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, SPOTLIGHT THEATRE/
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, ARIEL REPERTORY.
 Ari
Weisberg - DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Ari’s directorship and design
credits include EDMOND, THE MELVILLE BOYS, THE AFFECTIONS OF MAY,
MURDER AMONG FRIENDS, THIS NIGHT, THE CHOSEN, THE SISTERS
ROSENSWEIG, HOME OF THE BRAVE, THE TENTH MAN, THE LAST NIGHT OF
BALLYHOO, THE GOD OF ISAAC, CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER, CHAIM’S
LOVE SONG. A GLIMPSE OF THE LIGHT and THE DYBBUK Ari is the founder and artistic director of TEATRON
Toronto Jewish Theatre. He worked for 18 years as a director and a
producer for television in Kingston, Ontario. Later he was able to
come back to his first love, live theatre.
 Candi Zell
–
Assistant Stage Manager, Costume and Makeup
Acting is Candi's passion in life and she enjoys performing
for film, television and voice recordings as well as
theatre. Candi was privileged to play the rewarding and
memorable role of Hanna in
The Book of Ruth
(Jewish Children's Theatre). Some of her other favourite
theatre roles include The Dame in
Snow White and the
Several Dwarfs, Fifi Fluff in
Morning of a Private
Eye, and Pauline in the
Prisoner of Second
Avenue. Candi has performed five times in plays at
the Toronto Fringe Festival. She played Pete’s Mom in
YTV’s System Crash
and has been in numerous films and recordings. She is
delighted to be playing Boo and to be part of the talented
cast of this award winning play. Candi thanks Ari for
giving her this wonderful opportunity and everyone involved
in the production for their help and support.
*
appearing with the
permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
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(as appeared at time of production)
THIS NIGHT |THE CHOSEN
| HOME OF THE BRAVE |THE
TENTH MAN | THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO |
THE GOD OF ISAAC |
CONVERSATIONS
WITH MY FATHER | CHAIM’S LOVE SONG |
A GLIMPSE OF THE LIGHT |
THE DYBBUK |
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
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