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A Jew on Ethiopia Street

Allan Havis

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A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported. Meanwhile, there is also a reckless, clandestine operation afoot to airlift one last group of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia to Israel.

Production Info

Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
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Reviews

Press Quotes

“In 1996, Israel announced a blood shortage and urged its citizens to give generously. The Falasha-Ethiopian Jews who were new immigrants and eager to embrace their spiritual homeland-turned out in record numbers. A newspaper report later revealed that all of the Ethiopian blood had been discarded, untested, because of a fear of AIDS and other diseases. The Ethiopians were humiliated, and the Israeli government, thrust into damage control, recognized that the people rescued from oppression from Northeast Africa (through airlift operations nobly named ‘Moses’ and ‘Solomon’) were now facing discrimination in the very state meant to be a safe harbor for all Jews. Israel’s complex relationship with the Falasha (which literally means ‘stranger’) provides the foundation for A JEW ON ETHIOPIA STREET, Allan Havis’s new play.” —Caroline Palmer, American Theater

“A play about the fascinating story of Ethiopian Jews.” —Max Sparber, Citypages

About the Author

Author

  • Allan Havis

    Over three decades, Allan Havis has had his plays produced at theatres across the country and in Europe, including San Diego Rep, Old Globe, Seattle's ACT, Odyssey, Long Wharf, South Coast Rep, American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage, WPA, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Trapdoor Theatre, Coral Gable's New Theatre, Interact Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Co. and Rowholt Theater-Verlag (National German Radio). Works commissioned by England's Chichester Festival, Sundance, San Diego Rep, Ted Danson's Anasazi Productions, South Coast Rep, Mixed Blood, CSC Rep, Malashock Dance, Carolina Chamber Chorale, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, San Diego City Opera and University of California, San Diego. Nineteen published full-length plays including his signature drama MOROCCO: Penguin/Mentor, Theatre Communications Group, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, and Broadway Play Publishing. In the last three years he published the novels, Clear Blue Silence (Ktav Publishing 2022), Maddie Q (Willow River Press 2023), and Architects of the Taj Mahal (Willow Press 2024). He also published two young adult novels, Albert the Astronomer (Harper/Collins 1978) and its sequel, Albert Down a Wormhole (Goodreads Press 2019). His book on ninety years of cinema, Cult Films: Taboo & Transgression, was published by University Press of America. In collaboration with composer Anthony Davis, his play LILITH was re-imagined as a chamber opera, premiering at UC San Diego's Conrad Prebys Music Center December 2009. His next collaboration with Mr. Davis was Lear on the 2nd Floor, which premiered as a work-in-process in March 2012 at Princeton University, and a full-length piece at UC San Diego's Conrad Prebys Music Center in March 2013. Both operas can be viewed online at UCSD TV. His third opera, St. Francis de Los Barrios, was presented in showcase at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego in 2015. His opera The Golem of La Jolla, in collaboration with composer Michael Roth, had a concert presentation in October 2019 in La Jolla Playhouse's WoW Festival. His latest opera commission, Pancho Rabbit and Coyote, from Bodhi Tree Concerts will be his third opera with composer Anthony Davis. Recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Kennedy Center/American Express, CBS, HBO, National Endowment for the Arts Awards, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle 2003 Outstanding New Play for NUEVO CALIFORNIA (co-author Bernardo Solano) and San Diego's 2008 Patté Best Play award for THE TUTOR. University of Illinois Press published in 2001 his edited volume: American Political Plays. Southern Illinois University Press published in 2010 his second edited volume American Political Plays Post 9/11. In 2019 London's Bloomsbury/Methuen published his third volume American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism. He was Provost of Thurgood Marshall College/UC San Diego for ten years, has headed the MFA playwriting program at University of California, San Diego and continues to teach in their graduate writing program over thirty years where he serves as Chair of Theatre and Dance. He holds an MFA from Yale Drama School.

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 8/31/2012
Pages 65
ISBN 9780881455335

Special Notes

Special Notes

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