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More events this week &
through Chanukah 
  • Bookshelf
  • Tsitsit Fringe Talks
  • Coffee Break Chanukah - Denise Phillips Special
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ED HORWICH
Chief Executive Jewish Small Communities Network
Coffee Break
Bookshelf

Kay Silver talkS about her book Double Dilema, how she wrote it during lockdown, and find out where she drew her intriguing characters from.
"A concentration camp survivor with a secret. A life built on lies. A Rabbi who's not Jewish. A dream job in jeopardy."
5th Oct 10.30am
Coffee Break
Bookshelf

JEWS BY THE SEASIDE
PAM FOX talks about her new history of Bournemouth told through the stories of Jewish Guest Houses and Hotels
Date TBC
Coffee Break
Bookshelf

BOUND BY THE SCARS WE SHARE
VIVIEN CHURNEY joins us to read extracts and talk about the book she wrote which calls on events from her mother's life.
Date TBC
Coffee Break - click to Register FREE
Tsitsit Talks:
A series of conversations to launch Tsitsit, The Jewish Fringe Festival 


Online  4th, 6th, 7th October 2021
 
In association with...


A series of conversations on the subject of
Jewish experience in British theatre.


Tickets are free
simply register for each event through the links below. Anyone who registers will receive a Zoom link 24 hours prior the talk.
 

Dr. Henry Bial in conversation with Ben Naylor
Monday 4th October, 7pm-8pm
https://tsitsitfringe.org/events/tsitsit-talks-dr-henry-bial-in-conversation-with-ben-naylor/

Dr. Henry Bial is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kansas, where he has also served as Director of Jewish Studies, Director of the School of the Arts, and Chair of the Department of American Studies. He is the author of Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen (2005) and Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage (2015).

 

Ben Naylor is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of MA Acting (Classical) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. After studying Ancient History and Theology at Durham and Oxford, he trained as a director with Sir Peter Hall at the National Theatre, with John Caird at the Caird Company, with David Lan and others at the Young Vic, and assisted Edward Hall in the West End. He subsequently trained as an actor at Drama Centre London under Reuven Adiv, John Beschizza, James Kemp and Liana Nyquist. Ben has directed numerous productions, readings and workshops, and has taught at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Young Vic, LAMDA, Shakespeare Centre, FSU Theatre Academy London, UConn and Cambridge University. He has worked extensively internationally, in Israel, the US, Spain, Germany, Greece and New Zealand. He’s also acted professionally, including in the multi award-winning independent film Control (dir. Anton Corbijn).


 
In conversation with Prof. Nathan Abrams
Wednesday 6th October, 7pm-8pm

https://tsitsitfringe.org/events/tsitsit-talks-in-conversation-with-prof-nathan-abrams/
In addition to being a Professor in Film, Nathan is the Director of Impact and Engagement for the College of Arts, Humanities and Business at Bangor University. He is also the lead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies. He co-convenes the British Jewish Contemporary Cultures network. He lectures, writes and broadcasts widely (in English and Welsh) on UK and American popular culture, history film and intellectual culture. He co-founded Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal and his most recent books are Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Robert Kolker, Oxford University Press, 2019), Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press, 2018), Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (IB Tauris; Rutgers University Press, 2012). His most recent work focuses on legendary film director Stanley Kubrick.
 

Amy Rosenthal in conversation with Rob Messik
Thursday 7th October, 7:30pm-8:30pm

https://tsitsitfringe.org/events/tsitsit-talks-amy-rosenthal-in-conversation-with-rob-messik/
Amy Rosenthal has been writing for stage and radio since 1998. Her plays include Sitting Pretty, Henna Night and On The Rocks, which was nominated for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Recent work includes The Party Girls, a new play about Jessica Mitford and her infamous sisters, and she is currently developing a feature film with Atlas Films.

Rob Messik has been writing for stage, television and radio since 1999. His plays include The King of Schnorrers, Jungle which was Time Out Critics' Choice and Pineapple and Crust, both of which are being performed at the festival. Rob has a PHD in Jewish theatre, teaches full time and runs the King Alfred Phoenix Theatre.

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In conversation with Patrick Marber
Tuesday 12th October, 12pm-1pm

... in association with

https://tsitsitfringe.org/events/tsitsit-talks-in-conversation-with-patrick-marber-in-association-with-jewish-renaissance-https-www-jewishrenaissance-org-uk/
Patrick Marber’s directing credits of his own work include Dealer’s Choice at the National Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre, After Miss Julie for BBC TV, Exit the King at the National Theatre, Closer at the National Theatre, Lyric and Music Box, New York, Howard Katz and Three Days in the Country also at the National Theatre and Don Juan in Soho at Wyndham’s Theatre. His other directing credits include Leopoldstadt, currently playing at Wyndham's Theatre in London, The Room as part of the Pinter at the Pinter Season, Venus In Fur at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Travesties at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Apollo Theatre and The American Airlines Theater, New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Director, The Caretaker at the Comedy Theatre, Blue Remembered Hills at the National Theatre, ‘1953’ at the Almeida and The Old Neighborhood at the Royal Court Theatre. Marber’s plays, which have received multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway, include Dealer’s Choice, After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, Three Days in the Country, The Red Lion and a version of Hedda Gabler.  He is also an award-winning screenwriter and his film credits include Closer and Notes on a Scandal.
 
The Tsitsit Festival runs for the entire month of October, and the full programme can be found here: https://tsitsitfringe.org/
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