Light (a ten-minute play)

by Barbara Blatner

LIGHT

The Christmas/Chanukah holidays; workaholic scholar Anna, recently left by her husband and officially divorcing, has withdrawn from the world and from her adult children, Casey and Paul.

Casey, a medical school student home for the holidays, tries vainly to get Anna to take her head out of her books and connect. Paul, Casey’s older brother, a peripatetic poet-songwriter, shows up suddenly and refuses to...

LIGHT

The Christmas/Chanukah holidays; workaholic scholar Anna, recently left by her husband and officially divorcing, has withdrawn from the world and from her adult children, Casey and Paul.

Casey, a medical school student home for the holidays, tries vainly to get Anna to take her head out of her books and connect. Paul, Casey’s older brother, a peripatetic poet-songwriter, shows up suddenly and refuses to speak at all. To poke the bear that is Anna, he pulls from his backpack a menorah given to him by his father who, Paul reports, left Anna because he, too, felt second to her work.

The menorah unleashes Anna’s rage and grief about her divorce, opening the door to more realness with her kids.

The family comes together in their new configuration, as Casey and Paul light the menorah and Anna joins in to eat a meal of latkes.

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Light (a ten-minute play)

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    “

    Jewish Plays Project recommends LIGHT as a Semi-Finalist for our first Ten Minute Play Contest OOF: On One Foot, which searched nationally for plays from artists of all backgrounds responding to our prompt on healing & repair. LIGHT made a strong impact on our community of readers for the Festival of New Jewish Theatre in 2024, who connected with its current relevance and how it theatrically expressed the contest theme of healing & repair.

    Jewish Plays Project recommends LIGHT as a Semi-Finalist for our first Ten Minute Play Contest OOF: On One Foot, which searched nationally for plays from artists of all backgrounds responding to our prompt on healing & repair. LIGHT made a strong impact on our community of readers for the Festival of New Jewish Theatre in 2024, who connected with its current relevance and how it theatrically expressed the contest theme of healing & repair.

    ”