At The Toronto Centre for the Arts (former Ford Centre) Studio Theatre. 5040 Yonge Street, Toronto

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2010-11 SEASON: Two comedies and one romantic drama.

art by ronboyd.com

Comedy by

William Missouri Downs

Hard Love

Romantic drama by Israeli playwright

Motti Lerner

A Hamburger in a Pita

Comedy by Toronto playwright

Nina Shenhav

November 10 - 21, 2010
Canadian premiere
Hanna and Franklyn are a seemingly perfect couple who desperately want to have a child of their own, but can't. As the couple begins to wonder if they'll ever become parents, they have a chance encounter with a young woman from Iowa, pregnant and God-fearing, who offers to let the couple adopt her out-of-wedlock baby. Just before the adoption papers are signed, Hanna and Franklyn realise that she doesn't know they're Jewish. Knowing the revelation could throw a ratchet into the whole works, the couple poses as Lutherans--but how far are they willing to go to have a family? read More...

January 5 - 16, 2011
Canadian premiere
In this fiercely romantic drama, Hannah and Zvi are reunited after divorcing twenty years earlier. Raised in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim, the couple ended their marriage when Zvi turned his back on Judaism and Hannah did not. Now the teenage children from their second marriages have become romantically involved, forcing Hannah and Zvi back into each other's lives.