I’m super excited about being back from my extraordinarily rich run of my show in London and at the Leeds International Jewish Performing Arts Festival in Leeds.
What a wonderfully artistic trip and I got to reach a whole new audience with the message of the power of forgiveness.
One more opportunity this Friday night at The North Hollywood Church of Religious Science on Whitsett. What a lovely church. I’m looking forward to performing there.
It’s this Friday July 16th at 8 PM at the North Hollywood Church of Religious Science on Whitsett.
There will be cookies and tea served before the show and the talented singer/ songwriter Caroline Waters will be doing a pre-performance show with songs she wrote for My Brooklyn Hamlet’s original soundtrack. The show will be filmed for John Zak’s upcoming documentary about the healing powers of forgiveness.
Stay for the short Q and A and then join me and friends for a “Welcome Back from London and Dessert party” nearby.
Get your advanced tickets for the show directly from the church at http://www.nhcrs.org for $5 off.
Check out a recent review from my run in London:
My Brooklyn Hamlet – Brenda Adelman’s story has shocking parallels with Shakespeare’s play
By Judi Herman
http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=3435
A man shoots his wife dead and marries her sister…
Extraordinarily his daughter finds it in her heart to forgive him. And she is the winner in this unfolding tragedy for it takes his death to set her on the path to the forgiveness that will heal her.
Ultimately the audience at Brenda Adelman’s searing one-woman show are winners too as she shares her extraordinary true story…
Her father’s gun is a motif in young Brenda’s life for her father teaches her to use it when she is just ten years old. By this time her mother has taught her to recite her favourite excerpts from Shakespeare, a legacy she uses in the show to spellbinding effect..
Brenda does not just live to tell her tale, she is brave enough to share her journey to ‘truth and reconciliation’ and the way it has shaped her life, leading her for example to take a masters in spiritual psychology – and of course to write and perform My Brooklyn Hamlet. 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.
And I’ll be leading a live 90 minute workshop on the Power of Forgiveness in Relationships (current, new to dating and your relationship with yourself) the next day-Saturday, July 17th from 1-2:30 in Westwood. More info on that coming.
Forgive and Be Free,
Brenda
