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Synopsis
Alone again after long years of marriage, Benny Silver gets back in touch with Jo Ann Kaufman, the old college flame he has never forgotten. Through email and cellular communication, Benny and Jo Ann recall the past and cautiously reveal their present situations. Benny, in Canada, is still emotionally tied to his ex, while Jo Ann is living in Arizona with a man she doesn't particularly like. Separated by distance and years, theirs is an unexpected story of nostalgia, sex and romance. Relating the true story of it's co-writers Howie Siegel and Janet Rothman, Before Play is the winner of the 2007 Canadian National Playwriting Competition, which described it as "Lovely and truthful." This two-act, two-character drama is an off-beat commentary on culture, maturity, relationship, loss and love offered with humour, intelligence and spice. Before Play premiered in December 2008 at Victoria, BC's Theatre Inconnu, with its authors performing the roles based on their lives.
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Janet Rothman has acted and directed professionally for 40 years. She studied movement in Paris and theatre in London, she worked with La Mama in Amsterdam during the 70's, London's Royal Court, off-Broadway, Repertory Theatre, Dinner Theatre, touring Theatre for Young Audiences on Long Island and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. She and her husband founded and ran the only Equity theatre in the state, Actors Lab Arizona, in Scottsdale for 15 years. She wrote all the adaptations and original plays for Theatre for Young Audience programs. She always said she wrote for children because she had nothing to say to adults. Now she does. Howie Siegel was born in Brooklyn and raised in Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA and moved to British Columbia in 1972 where he co-founded Pagliacci's Restaurant in Victoria in 1979. He has 4 children, Solomon, Rose, Malka and Harry. And a dog, Maidel. And a girlfriend, fiancé, partner, co-star; the redoubtable Janet Rothman. This is his first play.
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