{"id":492,"date":"2005-04-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqed2.wsmtechs.net\/spark\/traveling-jewish-theatre\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T00:49:57","slug":"traveling-jewish-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/traveling-jewish-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Jewish Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kqed-jwplayer\"> <\/div>\n<p><script>\njwplayer(\"kqed-jwplayer\").setup({\nfile: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/tjt.m4v\",\nimage: \"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/\/2015\/06\/tjt-headshot.jpg\",\naspectratio: \"16:9\",\nwidth: \"100%\",\nprimary: \"flash\",\ntracks: [{ file: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/tjt.vtt\", label: \"English\", kind: \"captions\", \"default\": false }]\n});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<style>\n.single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer_wrapper, .single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer  {\n    margin-left: 8.33333% !important;\n    padding-left: 0.625rem;\n    padding-right: 0.625rem;\n    width: 56% !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p>In its 26th season, the <b>Traveling Jewish Theatre<\/b> (TJT) takes on its most challenging project to date, addressing the conflict in the Middle East. <b>Spark<\/b> visits the TJT&#8217;s ensemble cast of &#8220;Blood Relative,&#8221; a collaboratively created play about Israel\/Palestine from both perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>TJT&#8217;s artistic director, Aaron Davidman, began work on the &#8220;Blood Relative&#8221; project in 2002, with a research trip to Israel and to the Acco Theatre Festival. There he met actors Ibrahim Miari, a Palestinian who is the son of an Arab Muslim father and a Tunisian Jewish mother, and Meirav Kupperberg, who is Jewish. Both had ensemble theater experience and had worked on projects that dealt with Arab-Jewish issues. Miari&#8217;s story became the central theme of &#8220;Blood Relative.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The characters&#8217; stories in &#8220;Blood Relative&#8221; were developed using TJT&#8217;s unique, collaborative technique, which derives stories from a combination of external and internal sources. Interviews were conducted with families on both sides of the conflict. Material was also created from the personal lives and feelings of the play&#8217;s actors as well as from meetings with the Jewish Palestinian Dialogue Group, documentary films, and the two holy doctrines of Judaism and Islam &#8212; the Torah and the Koran.<\/p>\n<p>All of this research and discovery yields materials that are finessed into a script through discussion and improvisation that goes through many revisions until a final draft takes shape. This process is one that the TJT has been following for more than 25 years &#8212; a truly collaborative process through which the performers are deeply invested in the content and the production.<\/p>\n<p>The TJT was founded in 1978. It has created more than 20 original works for the theater and has performed in more than 60 cities worldwide. Its works have covered a range of issues, from the legends of the Hasidim to the assassination of Trotsky; from the politics of the Middle East to African-American\/Jewish relations. 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