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Out of SightJuggling Family Loyalty, Social Justice and Juicy Lemons Written and performed by Sara Felder Solo theater artist and world-class juggler, Sara Felder presents a bold new play about the art of seeing. In it, she tells and juggles the tale of a mother, nearly blind, and her adult lesbian daughter. The intimacy and struggles of the mother and daughter over how they “see” each other and the world unfold as they try to bridge their differences. Felder’s solo comedy brings circus tricks, shadow puppets and a Jewish queer sensibility to questions of family loyalty and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Coming from different generations, the mother and daughter struggle with questions of justice in regards to Israel. The mother came of age during the Holocaust and has a deep connection to Israel that she wants to pass on to her daughter. The daughter grew up doing Israeli folkdancing and listening to her mother’s stories of an idealized Israel in a more optimisic time. In tryig to understand her own vision of the world, the daughter recounts her college trip to Israel where she begins questioning her mother’s framework of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The intergenerational differences about Israel and Palestine are creating a new kind of silence. Out of Sight explores the pain and complexity of this silence in our most cherished relationships. Sara’s unique integration of circus arts and personal narrative once again allows us to explore the big questions of our lives, laughing along the way as we recognize ourselves in her stories.
Running time: 80 minutes. No intermission.
A solo theater artist, playwright, juggling diva, trickster and teacher, Felder has toured with the Pickle Family Circus, and Joel Grey’s Borscht Capades. She has performed in Cuba with Jugglers for Peace, in Nicaragua with the Women’s Circus, in Germany with the Klezmatics and all over the world at Festivals of Jewish/Yiddish Culture. She recently opened for Joan Rivers in Philadelphia. Her highly-acclaimed “June Bride” has toured to over 35 venues. Felder is currently developing “Melancholy, A Comedy,” about Abraham Lincoln and mental illness and, her newest endeavor, “A Queer Divine,” about grief. She is a recipient of Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award which honors artists committed to art and social change and has been awarded artistic fellowships by the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation, the National Performance Network, the California Arts Council and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an artist-in-residence at 1812 Productions, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts and the California Arts Council, the latter for her work teaching juggling and performance in California prisons. Out of Sight Tech: notes
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