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1221.0. "Award winning Israeli Play in Melrose" by AKOCOA::KNIPSTEIN () Mon May 11 1992 23:36

    	      The Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church 
    
		               presents
    
    		      "THE CHILD BEHIND THE EYES"
    
		Sunday, May 17th              3:00PM
    
    
    	"The Child Behind The Eyes" is a one-woman play by award winning
    Israeli playwright Nava Semel.  The show, featuring New York actress
    Amy Brentano, had a four week run on Nantucket last summer and is
    currently on a national tour.  Written in 1987, "The Child Behind The 
    Eyes" explores a woman's strength, anguish and joy in mothering a 
    child with Down Syndrome.
    	The play has an impressive international history.  In 1988-89 it
    was broadcast by the B.B.C. London, National Radio of Spain and by
    Radio Belgium.  Radio Dublin and Radio France broadcast it in 1990.
    In September of 1991, it was performed at the National Down Syndrome
    Congress Convention in Boston.
	In Israel it was produced by Lillian Shultz at the Haifa Municipal 
    Theatre where it won the Haifa Mayors Award for Best Play in 1988 and 
    the Art for the People Award for Best Production in 1990.  It was 
    recorded by the Israeli Broadcasting service (Kol Israel) and 
    represented Israel in the Italy Prize competition.
        Playwright Nava Semel has won the National Jewish Book Award for 
    her novel "Becoming Gershona", published by Viking Penguin.  Other 
    works by Semel include: "Poems on Pregnancy and Birth", "A Hat of 
    Glass" (short stories on children of Holocaust survivors), "An Old 
    Woman" (monodrama), "Flying Jews" and "Hunger".    
	Sunday's performance at the Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church
    is the only New England stop of the current tour.  The performance
    begins at 3pm and child care is available for those who need it. 
    The Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church is located at 70 West Emerson
    Street (directly opposite the Melrose Public Library).
    	Admission is $7.  Seating is limited, so advance purchase of 
    tickets is recommended.
    
    	Anyone seeking additional information, directions or to order
    tickets can call me at DTN 244-6244.  I will be glad to make ticket
    arrangements for noters interested in attending.
    
	Steve