YEHUDA HYMAN'S "THE MAD 7" PLAYS FRINGENYC 8/13-29
Published 2010-08-13
The McCarter Theatre's The Mad 7, written by and starring Yehuda Hyman will play Fringe NYC August 13th to August 29th. The one man show is directed by Mara Isaacs and being performed at Fourth Street Theatre.
Originally produced at McCarter Theatre Center's 2008 IN-Festival, The Mad 7- A Mystical Comedy with Ecstatic Dance is a modern-day riff on a 19th century Hasidic tale. Playwright, actor and choreographer Yehuda Hyman tells the epic tale of Elliott Green, San Francisco office drone turned reluctant hero who embarks on a strange and mystical quest. In a virtuosic performance, Hyman uses music and dance as he becomes the many characters of this playful, off-beat and moving story of spirituality and self-discovery. Inspired by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's "The Seven Beggars," The Mad 7 is a wild tour of the mysteries of the universe and the ecstasy of the soul.
The Star Ledger raves, "Hyman's contemporary adaption is freewheeling, often delightful, and more often moving...The Mad 7 may well persuade those who haven't been mentally or physically stimulated for years that they can still be awakened to the wonders of life."
Yehuda Hyman's plays have been produced at San Diego Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mixed Blood Theater, Cornerstone Theater Company, among others. Honors include the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, Heideman Award, grants from the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, a Jerome Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant to work with Cornerstone Theater. He was an artist-in-residence at the Rhodopi Theater Collective in Bulgaria and is an affiliated artist with the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity.
Mara Isaacs is the Producing Director at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, where she has overseen the transfer of McCarter productions to Broadway including Radio Golf, Translations, Anna in the Tropics, Electra and off-Broadway productions of Miss Witherspoon, Crowns, Valley Song, and The Brother/Sister Plays. Ms. Isaacs was resident artist at the Rhodopi International Collective in Bulgaria where she directed Yehuda Hyman's The Mad 7 (also at McCarter's In-Festival).
General admission tickets are $15 advance/$18 day of show.
Performance schedule: Friday, August 13 at 8:30pm; Wednesday, August 18 at 4:30pm; Saturday, August 21 at 6:15pm; Friday, August 27 at 2pm; and Sunday, August 29 at 1:45pm.
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