COMING SOON OFF-BROADWAY!
THE LAST SEDER
by
Jennifer Maisel
Spend the Holiday with the Price family.
They're dysfunctional- just like yours.
Read about playwright
Jennifer Maisel
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THEATER AND DATES TBD
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Faced with their father Marvin’s worsening Alzheimer’s, the four
grown Price daughters return home for the final Passover in
their childhood home. Lily, their overwhelmed mother, is
planning to put Marvin in a nursing home, and sell the house.
The daughters arrive with their own sets of issues: Michelle
brings a total stranger to pose as her nice Jewish boyfriend;
Angel starts an affair with her ex-boyfriend, on the roof;
Claire is fighting with her fiancé; Julie is pregnant with her
lesbian life partner. Marvin does not recognize any of them. As
the women cope with his disease, their relationships, and the
past, Marvin slips deeper into dementia. When the last Seder
arrives, however, Marvin has his first moments of clarity,
giving his family the ability and courage to finally move
forward.
The Last Seder received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture
New Plays for Production grant, before receiving the Fund for
New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center, as well as the
Charlotte Woolard Award for Promising New Voice in American
Theatre. The play has been produced at The Organic Theatre,
Chicago; Theatre J, DC; Ensemble Studio Theatre -LA Project; Teatro da Juventude, Brazil; Park Square Theatre, St Paul; and
St. Louis Repertory. The screenplay adaptation of
The Last Seder
won Showtime's Tony Cox Award.
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