Old Friends by Tamara Micner
Join the Chutzpah! Festival's theatre works-in-progress series for a look at Tamara Micner's new solo performance piece, live from London.
Chutzpah! presents returning festival favourite and award-winning theatre artist Tamara Micner’s (Holocaust Brunch, What You're Missing) new solo show Old Friends about the things we can't get over, and how we actually can. It was a warm night in September 1981 when half a million people came out to see a "neighbourhood concert" that would go down in history: Simon & Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park. After splitting up more than a decade earlier, two beloved Jewish artists came together for one night and held everyone spellbound. Why couldn't they stay together? Why do I care so much? And why - in the midst of COVID and the climate crisis and all the racism - can I not stop listening to them?
Tamara is a celebrated writer, performer and theatre-maker in London England, who hails from Vancouver. Her work tends to look at the past in new ways – including the pre-gentrified East End of London, the Second World War/Holocaust, the postwar period, and experiences of living in their wake – to explore how we can see our past, present and future in ways which are liberating, healing and joyful.
When:
Sunday, November 22 | 12pm PST
Where:
Online
Tickets:
$18 - Simulcast Single
$32 - Simulcast Household

The Chutzpah! Festival/Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre is grateful to and acknowledges that the land on which we gather here at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver is on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.