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Julia Pascal at The Drill Hall

BROKEN ENGLISH, a rehearsed reading and discussion
Monday 5 October, 8pm

London in the freezing winter of January 1947.As British Jews struggle against the Government's White Paper limiting Jewish entry into Palestine, a small group in the East End of London plot to murder the Foreign Secretary.

Based on a real story when Zionist Londoners tried to change the shape of the world.

MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Sunday 25 October, 4pm

Mothers and Daughters is a collection of 50 interviews with women of different backgrounds, ages, political and historical experiences. See below for more details.

With guest speakers including Linda Bellos, Eugenie Dodd and Rachel Garfield.

WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE, a rehearsed reading and discussion
Monday 9 November, 8pm

Judith, a 55-year-old Londoner, goes to New York to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

It appears that she is killing herself after the breakdown of her marriage but does the journey from the Old World to the New reveal other reasons for self-destruction?

On her journey through Manhattan she meets a 100-year-old woman, a 25-year-old actor and a Puerto Rican woman police officer before she decides whether to jump or not.

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Intergenerational project

Pascal Theatre Company is creating an intergenerational drama project that will work with young people aged 8-12 and their elders. The children are researching family memories with the aim of developing a short play

The work continues at:
Kingsgate Community Centre, Kilburn, London, NW6

and

Swiss Cottage Community Centre, 19 Winchester Road, London,  NW3

The project is funded by the Emanuel Vincent Harris Trust and Camden Council.

Jewish Mothers and Daughters

 

Mothers and Daughters
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Jewish Mothers and Daughters

Our current major arts project is an innovative film initiative, Jewish Mothers and Daughters which  records Jewish women's experience as a major archive. It is a diverse collection of 50 women of varying backgrounds, cultures and ages. 

The filmed archive is now deposited with The Jewish Museum, The British Library, the Imperial War Museum, London Metropolitan Archives,  The Women's Library and, of course, our partner for this project, London Jewish Cultural Centre. 


 
 The women  interviewed are well-known and lesser known personalities. These include:

Geraldine Auerbach Helen Bamber  Linda Bellos
Ruth Cecil  Natalie Clein  Judith Cohen 
Norma Cohen  Edwina Currie Ruth Deech
Eugenie Dodd Dr Marta Elian Rachel Garfield
Renee Goddard Ros Goldfarb Naomi Gryn
Helene Hayman Eva Hoffman  Pamela Howard
June Jacobs Miriam Karlin  Oona King
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Katherine Klinger  Susannah Kraft Levine
Irma Kurtz Maureen Lipman  Nancy Meckler 
Rebecca Mills Abigail Morris  Edith Newman
Susie Orbach Ursula Owen Julia Pascal
Melanie Phillips Ruth Posner Rosalind Preston
Dina Rabinovitch  Claudia Roden  Habie Schwarz 
Janet Suzman Liselle Terret  Faynia Williams
Carole Woddis 
Crossing Jerusalem

Julia Pascal's latest play is now published by Oberon Books.
This is the third volume of Julia's work and also includes:
 The Golem
 St Joan
Year Zero