What would you do? What would you do if you were alone, left to raise five hungry children? What can I tell them? Stop eating?
Chicago. 1925. Or maybe it’s 1905. Or 1955. Grandma Golde has a hardware store, five children, no money and a dead husband. She also has a story about Prohibition, rum-running and the mob. And a slide show.
Stills was originally created for the LABA Fest at the 14th St Y (NYC) and was streamed as a work-in-progress showing in May 2020. In 2022, the play was recognised as a semi-finalist for the 11th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest (Jewish Plays Project, NYC).
An acclaimed one-woman-show created by some of the most exciting Jewish talent in UK theatre.
The event will be followed by a post-show discussion with the writer and Debbie Cantor from World Jewish Relief, who will speak about the organisation's historical and modern-day work with refugees.
Creatives:
Golde: Debbie Chazen
Writer: Sarah Sigal
Director: Adam Lenson
Debbie Chazen (Golde)
Film inc: Red Joan, Topsy Turvy, Pops, The Duel, Suzie Gold
TV inc: Dr Who, Sherlock, The Smoking Room, The Last Kingdom, Urban Myths, Trollied, The Spa, Tittybangbang, Psychoville, Dead Pixels, Sticks and Stones, Avenue 5, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Nicholas Nickleby, Agatha Raisin, Tess of the D’Urbevilles, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Asylum, The Job Lot, Ambassadors, Doc Martin
Theatre inc: Our Generation (The National), Gin Craze! (Northampton Royal & Derngate), Am Dram the Musical (The Other Palace), Rags (Park Theatre), Sitting (Hong Kong), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Print Room), Calendar Girls The Musical (West End and tour - Oliver Award nomination, Best Actress in a Musical), Calendar Girls the Play (West End and tour), The Duck House (Vaudeville Theatre), Love and Information, The Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Crucible), In Basildon, Open Court, The Girlfriend Experience (The Royal Court), Mother Clapp’s Molly House, A Prayer for Owen Meany (The National), 3 Women (Trafalgar Studios), Dick Whittington (Barbican), Cinderella (The Old Vic), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse)
Sarah Sigal (writer)
Sarah is a writer, director, dramaturg and researcher. She has a BA from Gettysburg College and an MA and PhD from Goldsmiths University of London. She has taught at a number of universities and is the author of Writing in Collaborative Theatre-Making (Palgrave, 2016). She was a LABA Fellow at the 14th St Y in NYC (2019-2020), a member of the BBC Writersroom (2013-2014) and is a 2021-2022 Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre.
Writing credits include: Vanishing (Camden Peoples Theatre), Agent of Influence (Edinburgh Fringe & National Tour), World Enough and Time (Park Theatre), The Odyssey (The Albany), Alice’s Adventures in the New World (Old Red Lion & National Tour) and Dogfight (Arcola).
sarahsigal.com
Adam Lenson (director)
Adam is a London-based Director, Dramaturg and Creative Technologist.
New work directing includes world premieres of PUBLIC DOMAIN (West End), SUPERHERO, THE FABULIST FOX SISTER, WASTED (Southwark Playhouse), STAGES, LOCK & KEY (Vault Festival), THE LEFTOVERS (National Tour), THE SORROWS OF SATAN (Tristan Bates Theatre), EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENED (Edinburgh Fringe).
Other direction includes European premieres of ORDINARY DAYS (Trafalgar Studios), LITTLE FISH (Finborough Theatre), WHISPER HOUSE (The Other Palace), SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE (Jermyn Street Theatre) and major revivals of THE RINK (Southwark Playhouse), SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (St James Theatre), and 35MM (The Other Palace).
He was featured in the 2021 Stage 100 for his contributions to new writing and digital theatre.
adamlenson.com
