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Formative Stages: The Chosen | View Full Calendar

Presented by Lauren Berg, LPA, Discussant

4/18/2010

Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave
following 2pm matinee
Presented by Lauren Berg, LPA, Discussant

The Chosen
Adapted for the Stage by Aaron Posner

“This award-winning adaptation from the award-winning novel is the coming-of-age story of two boys growing up in two very different Jewish communities — “five blocks and a world apart” — in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1940s. In it, Danny, the brilliant and curious son of a Hasidic rabbi, struggles with his longing to know more of the world and his father’s unwillingness to speak to him when they are not studying the Torah. After a heated fight at a baseball game, Danny befriends Reuven, an Orthodox Jew from a nearby neighborhood who becomes a friend and a partner in investigating both their shared Jewish heritage and their wildly divergent family environments and hopes for the future. When Danny’s father prohibits him from speaking to Reuven because of a political disagreement about the nascent Israeli state, both boys learn that the bonds of religion, friendship and community are both more brittle and more binding than they could have possibly imagined.” --Portland Center Stage www.pcs.org

Lauren Berg, LPA is a psychotherapist in private practice treating adolescents and adults. She is also a fourth-year candidate at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute.

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