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The Black-Jew Dialogues: A Multicultural Comedy

An interactive, satirical comedy about prejudice

Location

The Commons : Skylight Room

Date & Time

March 1, 2017, 7:00 pm9:00 pm

Description

“Brave theatre that opens people up to the possibility of change.”
John H. Houchin, Boston College, Chair, Theatre Department

This extraordinary two-actor play explores the absurdity of prejudice and racism and the power of diversity. The program combines fast-paced sketches, improvisations, multi-media, puppets, a game show, and a post show discussion. This mixture of media, theater, and dialogue creates a show that has gained praise from universities, high schools, synagogues, and theatres across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Within the context of two students working on a class project about cross-cultural dialogue, the performers take the audience on a hysterical and poignant ride. The characters themselves, a traditional student and adult student, represent a sample of the types of diversity present today. The resulting discussion challenges both baby boomers and millennials to critically examine the world around them in order to understand the true nature of diversity and how it has evolved in the 21st Century.

Featuring Award Winning Actors!

Kaedon Gray

Kaedon Gray is a Boston-based singer and actor. Not a trained dancer, but he moves very well. The thing that currently takes up most of his time is being frontman…for three bands: The Breakfast Project (original bluesy pop), The Zen Rebels (original Prog rock) and Off Tha Hook (5 horns, all covers).


Larry Jay Tish

Larry is an educator, producer, writer, business consultant, improv performer, and actor. He is a founding member of Dialogues on Diversity as well as StageCoach Improv. He has facilitated diversity workshops with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), Toyota of America, The Trauma Center of Boston, Vectren Corporation, the City of Evansville – Indiana (including the Evansville Police Department and Indiana State Police), Massachusetts Attorney General.

While at StageCoach Improv, Larry created and facilitated team building workshops for Harvard Business School, The American Bar Association, Greenberg Traurig law, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Borland, MediMedia, The International Academy of Collaboration Professisonals (ICAP), among others. He was the lead consultant for the Reebok Executive Team for their annual investors forum. Larry is the Boston Region Arts Department Leader for the SGI-USA, a lay Buddhist organization that that promotes peace, culture and education through the humanistic philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism. Larry’s plays have been produced in the US, Canada, and the UK. He is a published poet and short story writer as well.



A dessert reception and facilitated discussion with the actors will immediately follow the show.