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Temple Anshe Amunim to Host Play Analysis Series
10:27AM / Friday, July 01, 2016
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Temple Anshe Amunim will host a four-part Play Analysis series on Tuesdays in July, beginning July 5, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

The topic is "The Corrupting Influence of Materialism in Plays by Arthur Miller and David Mamet."

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Arthur Miller’s birth (2015), the group will be reading and analyzing "The Price," which opened on Broadway in 1968 with Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy, was revived three times, and became a television film in 1971 for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, featuring Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott. It is about the rivalry between two brothers, each of whom has paid a price to get where he is in life. Each had to choose between money and integrity, believing that the price he paid was greater than that of his sibling.

The second play is David Mamet’s "Glengarry Glen Ross," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. It tells the story of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who engage in illegal acts to sell worthless real estate to unsuspecting buyers. The play exposes the depths to which people will go in order to stay on top of the American Dream. Premiering in London at the National Theatre in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross was produced in Chicago and on Broadway, where it was revived twice (winning the Tony in 2005), was made into a film (1992) and a BBC radio drama. Among the actors who starred in these productions are Joe Mantegna, Liev Schreiber, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Jonathan Pryce.

This course will be taught by Dr. Barbara Waldinger, a director and professor of Theatre at Hofstra University, Marymount Manhattan College, and Queens College. She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, and for the past 16 years has served as artistic director of HRC Showcase Theatre in Hudson, N.Y., which is dedicated to staged readings of the five winners of its annual nationwide playwriting contest.
 
Waldinger directs for Plays in Progress, a theater group that helps to develop the work of new playwrights, and at other local venues.

The cost for the four-session course is $40 for Temple members and $45 for non-members; or $15 for any individual session. For more information, contact the Temple Anshe Amunim office at 413-442-5910 or visit www.ansheamunim.org.

 

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