5785 is the year that we bring back JFREJ’s dazzling topsy-turvy radical Purimspiel!
Tickets $18+ here
ABOUT PROJECT E̶S̶T̶H̶E̶R̶ VASHTI:
Set on the stage of Wicked’s Oz, PROJECT E̶S̶T̶H̶E̶R̶ VASHTI is a surrealist take-down of Project Esther. (Created by the Heritage Foundation & named for our beloved Queen, Project Esther appropriates Jewish pain, trauma & fear to criminalize the movement for Palestinian freedom, as part of an authoritarian strategy to advance Christian nationalism). A bounty of revolutionary ancestors (including Judith, Claude Cahun, the Anarchist Sage, the Witches of Ashkelon & the OG Esther herself, Ishtar) are convening to support Vashti/ Elephaba & Esther/ Glinda in overthrowing the forces of tyranny, embodied in a Christian-Zionist Haman & they need your help!!!! Ritual theatrics will be interactive & infused with live-music, singing, grief-work, revolutionary practice prompts & dance!
Written/ Directed by Elana-June Margolis
Spectacle Engineered by Jenny Romaine/Great Small Works with a crew of hot designers, including members of the JFREJ Art & Culture Role Network
Music guided by Anat Halevy Hochberg & M. Miller & performed by Ira Khonen Temple & friends TBA!
Featuring performances by Dori Midnight, Julie Weitz, Ezra Berkley Nepon, Jules Pashall, Ayelet Hashachar, Annie-Rose London, Willow Rosencunt, Gage Spex, Viva Ruiz, Aiyana Masla, Andy Izenson, Megan Pamela Ruth Madison, Jenny Hipscher, Nath Ann Carrera, Shana Salzberg & MORE TBA!!!!!!
MORE ABOUT MAARIV & THE MEGILLAH READING
Join Ari L Monts & Sara Feldman and a team of diasporist leyners for traditional egalitarian/Conservative-style Maariv service and full Megillah reading. Jews of all genders, races & dis/abilities over bar/bat mitzvah age will be counted towards the minyan. The service is in Hebrew with important information and kavanot/intentions offered in English.
Together, we will read/ hear all 10 chapters of Megillat Esther (the Esther story) read in Hebrew in the special Purim trope. Explanation and context will be offered after each chapter in English. Bring your responsive sensibilities and your noisemaker to drown out Haman's name!