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Illustrative: Julie A. Lockhart (arms raised), Rebecca Rasmussen, Monika Beal, and Fahad Siadat perform in Theatre Dybbuk s Hell Prepared. (Taso Papadakis/ Theatre Dybbuk)
From front to back: Jonathan C.K. Williams, Rob Adler, Rebecca Rasmussen, Nick Greene, Jenny Gillet in Exagoge, 2016. (Taso Papadakis/ Theatre Dybbuk)
Julie A. Lockhart (masked), and Jonathan C.K. Williams in Exagoge, 2016. (Taso Papadakis/ Theatre Dybbuk)
From left to right: Rebecca Rasmussen, Jonathan C.K. Williams, Diana Tanaka, Rob Adler, Julie A. Lockhart (masked), Jenny Gillett, and Nick Greene in Exagoge, 2016. (Taso Papadakis/ Theatre Dybbuk)
LOS ANGELES A newly rediscovered short, seven-page play found in a 1926 religious school journal now has a bit part in a Jewish theater company’s efforts to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
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My mother used to chant in Sanskrit in her study before sunrise every morning. Though she died when I was 16 - 22 years ago - I always hear her voice that way. Off-key, but strangely hypnotic, the language both complicated and pure, reverberating around our house.
For a kid growing up in Southern Ohio - Bible belt country - the sound was both alluring and repellent. What s your mother doing? my friends would ask. Being a weirdo, I told them.
And so encapsulates the coming of age story of Sasha Brown, a transplanted tween plunked in the middle of the Bible Belt with a macrobiotic hippy mom and a ribs-eating dad. A writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan, Brown s prose is heartfelt and hilarious, revealing her quest to find her way as two worlds collide. While other moms were at Bible study, her mom was studying Sanskrit; while other were finding friendship at Tupperware parties, her mom was