Saturday, April 08, 2006

 

2006

For Ann's birthday in March, Alan pulled off a surprise--it was opening night of a play he was in (see note below next to the grim b&w photo), and he called friends to be waiting in the lobby when the play ended. Some friends took photos--but unfortunately forgot about the flash!

Ann leaves theatre and is startled










she figures out what's going on--
and spots an unexpected friend--

smiles for the camera

and cuts the cake



Alan returned to the stage in March as a German Jewish psychoanalyst in Montevideo, in an adaptation of Francine Prose's novel, Hungry Hearts. Here he is in rehearsal, with a pen standing in for the cigar that was his main prop. More photos when available.

The play was the final production for Women at Play, a local group founded some twelve years ago, now shutting down. Katherine Burkman--well known as a Pinter and Beckett scholar, now retired from OSU's Department of English, adapted and directed the Prose novel. Alan's Dr. Zweivel was only on for about five minutes--a good, short cameo of a scene. The play (and novel) follow a Yiddish theatre company touring Ansky's The Dybbuk to South America, when the leading lady is possessed by a real dybbuk in Buenos Airies. Dr. Zweivel attempts to psycholanalyze her at the next stop.


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