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For
additional information contact: Dorothy
Silver Stars in
Golda’s
Balcony Golda’s Balcony,
the powerful and moving story of
Israel’s first female Prime Minister, starring Dorothy Silver will have a
preview performance on March 27. The play was written by William Gibson.
The official opening on March 28th will be followed by a reception
for the cast and audience. The
play will be performed through April 13th at Actors’ Summit Theater
in downtown Hudson. The
play is performed Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at
The
Play
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of
Atonement, Born in 1898 in Kiev
Russia, Golda Mabovich, emigrated with her parents to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when
she was five years old. When she finished grade school, her parents saw no need
for her to continue her education, so she ran away to live with her sister in
Colorado. At the age of 16, finding her sister as “bossy” as her mother, she
moved out, got a job, and rented a room. In Colorado she met Morris Meyerson
whom she married several years later. In 1921, Golda and Morris
emigrated to Palestine and joined a kibbutz. Golda, who had always been
politically active, worked for the labor party and eventually became a
functionary within the Jewish Agency.
On the eve of the
establishment of the State of Israel, Golda was sent on an undercover mission to
negotiate peace with King Abdullah of Jordan. Her mission
failed. Golda Meir (David
Ben-Gurion changed her name from Meyerson to Meir to make it sound more Hebrew)
served the new state in a number of capacities: fundraiser, ambassador to
Moscow, Minister of Labor, and Foreign
Minister. The central focus of the
play is the decision Golda faced in the darkest days the Yom Kippur war, when
the imminent destruction of the State of Israel caused her to consider using
Israel’s nuclear weapons. The
Cast
Dorothy
Silver has performed and
directed at many area theatres including Great Lakes Theatre Festival and the
Cleveland Playhouse as well as in the New York’s American Place Theatre. Among her favorite roles are leads in
The Visit, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and Master
Class. She served in long-time
posts as Director of Theatre at the Cleveland
Performance Schedule
Tickets
Tickets
can be purchased on line at www.actorssummit.org or by phone by calling (330)
342-0800. Web
site
Actors’ Summit Theater can be found on the web at
www.actorssummit.org.
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