While conflict may continue just blocks away, there is one show, Dai (enough), that shows the human side of another important conflict issue (the Middle East), with previews starting tonight.
The acclaimed Dai (enough), written and directed by Iris Bahr, kicks-off a limited run with performances at 6:30PM (show running time is 65 minutes, with no intermission). Visit www.daitheplay.com
Dai (enough),
written and performed by Iris Bahr (www.irisbahr.org)
returns to the New York stage beginning Monday, November 12 at The 47th Street
Theatre (304 West 47th Street). Dai
premiered last season at The Culture Project, after which it played a sold-out
month-long engagement at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in August. In addition
to receiving two 2007 NY Drama Desk Award nominations, including Best Solo
Performance, and a UK Stage Award nomination for Best Solo Performance at this
year's Edinburgh Festival, Ms. Bahr played an invitation-only performance of
Dai in May for more than 100 U.N. Ambassadors and Diplomats at the personal
request of Israeli UN Ambassador, Dan Gillermann.
Performances begin November 12 through Sunday, March 2,
2008. Opening night for Dai is
Monday, November 19. Dai will be sharing the stage with
current 47th Street
occupant Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening.
"Dai transports us
into the fast-paced world of a bustling Tel Aviv café, just moments before a
suicide bomber enters. Brought to life through Iris Bahr's razor sharp
characterizations, members of all strata of Israeli society, as well as its
observers and critics, are captured in what are to be their final moments. But
it is Bahr's ability to find the humor and humanity in even the most dire and
tragic circumstances that makes Dai sparkle, as we come to know these
eccentric, lost, troubled souls, and peer into their hilarious lives, quirks
and neuroses," explain press notes, "Far from a polemic, Dai is meant not as a political statement. Rather, it is designed
as a freshly-cut cross section of people living in and visiting Tel Aviv that
portrays many experiences and viewpoints. It is ultimately an exploration of
the humanity of Israel,
how lives are touched by the conflict and the internal ideological turmoil
prevalent in Israeli society – a society that manages to sustain its humor and
love for life despite the tragic existential crisis in which both sides find
themselves."
A cross-section of humanity in her own right, native New
Yorker Iris Bahr has been a sergeant in the Israeli army, a neuroscience
researcher, a standup comedian and actress, and is the author of the current
Bloomsbury published memoir "Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty
Year Old Pseudo-Virgin." A dual citizen of America
and Israel,
Bahr's many television and film roles include a recurring role on HBO's "Curb
Your Enthusiasm" and a co-starring role in the nationally released Larry The Cable Guy. Bahr is also the
writer/performer of another solo work, Planet
America, which has been optioned for development into a feature film.
The performance schedule for Dai is as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and
Saturdays at 6:30pm, with matinees on Saturdays at 2:00pm and Sundays at 5:30pm
Tickets are $65 for all performances. For tickets and information, call
Telecharge at (212) 239-6200. The 47th
Street Theatre is located at 304 West 47th Street.
The Thanksgiving week performance schedule: Monday, 11/19:
6:30pm; Tuesday, 11/20: 6:30PM; Wednesday, 11/21: 2pm & 6:30pm; Thursday,
11/22: DARK; Friday, 11/23: 6:30pm; Saturday, 11/24: 6:30pm; Sunday, 11/25:
5:30pm.
The Christmas and New Year's performance schedule: Monday,
12/24: 6:30pm, Tuesday. 12/25: 6:30pm, Wednesday, 12/26: 6:30pm, Thursday,
12/27: 6:30pm, Friday, 12/28: 6:30pm, Saturday: 12/29: 2pm & 6:30pm,
Sunday, 12/30: 5:30pm, Monday, 12/31: DARK, Tuesday, 1/1: DARK, Wednesday, 1/2:
6:30pm, Thursday, 1/3: 6:30pm, Friday, 1/4: 6:30pm, Saturday, 1/5: 2pm &
6:30pm, Sunday, 1/6: 5:30pm. During these two weeks, all performances will be
priced at $75.00.
