Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
2pm and 7:30pm
Tickets available at: https://persephonetheatre.org/shows/play/old-stock/
Or at the box office: Persephone Theatre – 100 Spadina Cres.
Free community tickets available based on financial need: Please email Rosy Kreindel at rosy@agudasisrael.org
Watch The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z3PTWFAho&t=4s
2b theatre company http://2btheatre.com
2b is a Halifax-based, internationally-acclaimed theatre company creating works for the regional, national, and international stages. Artistic co-directors Christian Barry and Anthony Black share a commitment to create, develop, and produce new work that is distinguished by innovation in staging, polish in design, and virtuosity in performance.
Ben Caplan http://www.bencaplan.ca/
Ben Caplan is best known as a singer-songwriter and musician. He has released three albums to critical acclaim and actively tours with his band in twenty-eight countries. Caplan’s third studio album, comprised of the music from Old Stock, was released in June of 2018. Though Ben Caplan is best known as a songwriter, his first experiences as a performer were in the theatre. He spent many years training, performing, and directing in the theatre before leaving it behind to dedicate his full attention to music.
Hannah Moscovitch – Playwright, Old Stock
Hannah is an acclaimed Canadian playwright. Her work for the stage includes Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, East of Berlin, The Russian Play, Little One, and others. Her plays have been widely produced across North America and internationally. She’s won multiple awards for her work, including the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Toronto Critic’s Award for Best New Canadian Play, both the Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Trillium Book Award (she is the only playwright to win in the award’s thirty-year history), and the prestigious international Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale University. She is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
Lecture: Ukrainian Jewish Artists Across Three Centuries