{"id":38589,"date":"2022-04-08T01:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=38589"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:09:10","slug":"bar-mitzvah-reveals-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/08\/bar-mitzvah-reveals-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar mitzvah reveals tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Guerriero, left, Lorene Cammiade and Rudy Smith rehearse a scene from Bema Productions\u2019 staging of Men Overboard, which will be at Emanu-El Synagogue\u2019s Black Box Theatre May 5-15. Guerriero plays Jay Silver, a Buddhist monk and the youngest son of Zaida Ernie, Cammiade portrays Eva Fuzesi, the bar mitzvah tutor from Hungary, and Smith plays Doug Silver, Ernie\u2019s middle son and a psychotherapist. (photo from Bema Productions)<\/em><\/p>\n

Next month, Victoria\u2019s Bema Productions mounts the first full production of Men Overboard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Winner of the Long Beach Playhouse New Play Contest and a finalist for the Woodward-Newman New Play Award, Men Overboard<\/em> was written by Rich Orloff. After well-received readings and workshops in New York, Philadelphia, Long Beach and Dayton, the play comes to Victoria, where the premi\u00e8re will be directed by Kevin McKendrick.<\/p>\n

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Things get rough in Men Overboard: Rudy Smith puts a (fake) stranglehold on Nicholas Guerriero. (photo from Bema Productions)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The play focuses on a bar mitzvah for a boy, Abraham, who doubts he\u2019s ready to become a man. The event brings together Abraham\u2019s politician father and the father\u2019s two brothers, a therapist and a Buddhist monk. Add their fading but forceful father and Abraham\u2019s bar mitzvah tutor, a woman who loves Abraham and possibly one of his uncles, and it\u2019s easy to see that Abraham is torn between obedience and defiance of his father. Tensions grow, affecting everyone in the family, until anger becomes abuse and it becomes clear that the family\u2019s status quo is no longer an option. Men Overboard<\/em> asks \u201cWhat makes a man?\u201d as it explores the responsibility each of us has to protect the souls of those we love.<\/p>\n

The Bema production stars Lorene Cammiade, Nicholas Guerriero, Asa O\u2019Connor-Jaeckel, Evan Roberts, Alf Small and Rudy Smith. It is produced by Alan Segal and takes place May 5-15 at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue\u2019s Black Box Theatre, 1461 Blanshard St. For tickets ($25) and showtimes, visit eventbrite.ca\/e\/295008758137<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Courtesy Bema Productions<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Guerriero, left, Lorene Cammiade and Rudy Smith rehearse a scene from Bema Productions\u2019 staging of Men Overboard, which will be at Emanu-El Synagogue\u2019s Black Box Theatre May 5-15. Guerriero plays Jay Silver, a Buddhist monk and the youngest son of Zaida Ernie, Cammiade portrays Eva Fuzesi, the bar mitzvah tutor from Hungary, and Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[1332,21392,21393,6208,6224],"class_list":["post-38589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performing-arts","tag-emanu-el","tag-men-overboard","tag-rich-orloff","tag-theatre","tag-victoria"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}