A Bold New Experience in Forgiveness
Her mother was shot. Her father jailed. Then he married her aunt.
My Brooklyn Hamlet is Brenda’s acclaimed one-woman show about family, murder, love, betrayal and the awesome power of forgiveness. In 1995 Adelman’s mother was shot and killed by her father and within months he married her aunt. This is a story about love and hate, passion and numbness and how to find joy after you’ve lost everything.
“She tells her story through dark, wickedly funny anecdotes that are laugh-out-loud hilarious, but also gut-wrenching.” — LA Theatre Review
“Ultimately the audience at Brenda Adelman’s searing one-woman show are winners too as she shares her extraordinary true story…her mother has taught her to recite her favourite excerpts from Shakespeare, a legacy she uses in the show to spellbinding effect…She morphs effortlessly into both parents and does not spare her audience the gory details of their relationship, or the depths of her own pain… thanks to her winning open personality and the simplicity and candour of her storytelling, nicely leavened with a disarming humour and her great personal charm, the parts add up to a gripping whole” All About Jewish Theatre Judi Herman
Three performances only!
Sundays at 7:00 pm
MARCH 19
MARCH 26
APRIL 2
