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-When Asher is 10 & starts painting again
-Doodles the Rebbe in book

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-When the parents go to the museum
-Death of the Uncle

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-Many stories told by Asher throughout the entirety of the play

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It is worth noting that it was important to us that we cast only Jewish actors to play Jewish characters.

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-Asher: Andrew Garfield
-The Women: Winona Ryder
-The Men: Daniel Day Lewis

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While Winona Ryder is best known for her teen and adolescent roles, some of her more recent work demonstrates a level of maturity needed for the female roles. Joyce Byers in 'Stranger Things' and Deborah Kuklinksi in 'Iceman' show her as a mother dealing with distressing situations, which prove that she would be excellent as Rivkeh, the largest female role.

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Asher- Jacob
The Women- Laura
The Men- Eve
Director- Faith

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pg. 17 "One night my mother came into the kitchen..."
pg. 19 "So the gift was lost..."

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My song selections (as of 4/26) See playlist link below.

I envision the music being heavy much like the feeling throughout the show. The music should be dark and reflective as Asher spends so much of his life reflecting and feeling out of alignment with his self.

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Originally a novel by Chaim Potok, an American author and rabbi. fhe was most famous for his first book The Chosen, which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies. My Name is Asher Lev was first published in 1972 as a novel. Aaron Posner adapted his novel into the play version in 2010. Among Posner's best known adaptions are The Chosen (1999), based on Chaim Potok's 1967 novel of the same name and My Name Is Asher Lev (2009), based on Potok's 1972 novel.  Posner is the founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadephia and two-time Barrymore Award winner.

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My Name is Asher Lev is set in the 1950s in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. This was set in a world when Joseph Stalin and the persecution of Jews and religious people in the Soviet Union was prevalent.

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For our scene, I think Verklarte Nacht, Op.4 when it says (music, softly) after Aryeh's "Yes. Yes, I've noticed..." line into the final Asher line of "And with it so was I." To really capture the sadness that is taken place within Asher and his family.

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I envision the encounters with Asher and his mother being more piano. They are sad but hopeful. Much like their relationship.
-18 Pieces, Op. 72: II Berceuse
-String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Minor

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When we find out the Uncle has passed, I thought perhaps the below song. A very dramatic piano to follow in the piano theme with Rivkeh.
-String Quartet No.3 in E-Flat oP. 30: III

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Honoring Asher with the violins and how his death stunted Asher's creativity, we could also go with this song:
-Jewish Town

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I like the idea of using heavy violin when he is painting. This uncontrollable need to create, to paint, to seek truth and display it.
-Presto in C Major
-String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 I

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For when Asher is traveling I envision something slightly more upbeat and in tradition with his culture. He is creatively finding a way to honor his culture in his own terms
-Russian Sher

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-recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award

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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the social pressure of turning your back on your people and your heritage is huge. Asher feels this pressure firsthand with his father reminding him, "The Jewish people are one body and one soul. We have a responsibility. All Jews are responsible for one another."

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Asher's true passion in life is art while his father urges him throughout the majority of the play to stop. "I wish you'd stop drawing. I thought you were done with that narishkeit."

Asher uses art to express his model of the world and feelings. This is how he articulates how he sees the world to the world. His father continues to squish Asher's feelings with his personal opinions. "Sometimes feelings are dangerous.

Asher's mother, Rivkeh, enjoys his drawings but wishes everything he paints to be, "pretty." This frustrates Asher as he sees art as an expressive form of viewing life. Not everything in life is going to be pretty.

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Asher is in constant conflict with his art because of his culture. Early on in his life, he draws the Rebbe trying to hurt him in his Siddur. "You defiled a holy book!"

Asher's desire to paint brings up an argument with his parents regarding the 'nude' paintings. His family views these 'naked' pictures as distasteful whereas he sees a big difference between 'naked' and 'nude.' "A naked woman is just a woman with no clothes on. A nude is an artists personal vision of a body with no clothes on." Like most of Asher's arguments with his family, it becomes an intellectual and spiritual disagreement

The final stasis is broken when Asher's "Brooklyn Crucifixion" is displayed at the Art Exhibit. The blasphemous artist he became.  Although the art show was a great, 'success' for his career as an artist, his personal life shattered. He was ask to leave the synagogue. The Rebbe even asked him to leave Brooklyn. His family dynamic will never be the same.

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Perhaps the Lev household used to be warm, lit with yellows and pinks, but after Yakkov's death, the house becomes cold, depressing, washed out with blues and whites.

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With all the conflicts stated above, we think the line that summories Asher's personal conflict perfectly is, "My gift is from the Ribbono Shel Oylom and the Sitra Achra- it is demonic and divine." His desire to paint is the very thing that ruins his relationships.

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Rivkeh's window, stark white and blue lighting to reflect her numbed, negative emotions after her brother's death.

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Conversely, Jacob Kahn's studio is always warmly lit with the yellow of incandescent lights and the white of natural light from several "skylights."