| Author: | Mara Lathrop | EMail: | mara@awarenessworkshop.org | ICWP Member?: | Yes | Nearest Large City: | Seattle, WA | Country: | USA | Play Title: | The Eighteenth Mitzvah | Runtime: | 120+plus minutes | Synopsis: | A fable of the Old World, a story set in a Ukrainian shtetl in the year 1820. The play weaves together the journey of an itinerant scribe who is commissioned to hand write a copy of the Torah, a tale about an orphan girl of fifteen married against her will to a much older man, and stories from the Talmud which illustrate Jewish law and human frailty.
Workshop, Freehold Studio Theatre, Seattle, WA
Finalist, 1999 Dorothy Silver Prize, Cleveland, OH
Staged Reading, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA
Workshop & Staged Readings, Cornish College & Hugo House, Seattle, WA
Finalist, 1999 Studio Project, Theatrework, Santa Fe, NM
First Prize, The 1999 Richard Hugo House New Play Competition, Seattle, WA
Reading, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA | Male: | 16 | Female: | 8 | Max. Cast: | 9 | Min. Cast: | 24 | Media: | Select> | Genre: | Select> | Theme: | Jewish history | Web Page: | | First Name: | Mara | Last Name: | Lathrop | Notes: | |
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