The Blessing of a Broken Heart
an award-winning play by Todd Salovey
based on the award-winning book by
Sherri Mandell
directed by Yael Valier
designed by John Krug
in cooperation with
presenting...
Photo credit, Assaf Peri, 2020
For more information about the cast, speakers,
crew and making of this production, go to the production page, HERE.
Sherri Mandell wrote a heartrending and hope-giving book in the year after her son Koby's murder. Todd Salovey's play brings that year searingly to life.
The Blessing of a Broken Heart opens on January 11th, 2022, in Jerusalem's Khan Theater and goes on to show in Gush Etzion, Beit Shemesh, Ra'anana and Modi'in. Todd Salovey’s play, based on Sherri Mandell’s National Jewish Book Award-winning book, won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It tells the true story of Sherri’s journey with and through grief after her son Koby’s vicious murder during the Second Intifada.
Each performance is followed by an interview with a guest scholar. We will be discussing the big issues of good and evil, faith and doubt, the benevolence--or otherwise--of God, and human resilience.
ENTRANCE TO PERFORMANCES ARE ONLY WITH A TAV YAROK!
Dates, cities, speakers:
January 11, Khan Theater, Jerusalem, Sherri Mandell
January 12, Khan Theater, Jerusalem, R' Seth Mandell
January 18, Ulam Einan, Kenyon Azrieli, Modi'in, R' Dr. Natan Lopes Cardozo
January 19, Center Stage Theater, Ra'anana, Tanya White
January 20, Center Stage Theater, Ra'anana, R' David Lapin
January 23, Eshkol Pais, Beit Shemesh, guest TBA
January 27, Heichal Hatarbut, Gush Etzion, Sherri and R' Seth Mandell
For more information about Blessing -- dates and locations, background, cast, crew, speakers, and documentary -- click here.
Rehearsal and performance scenes from current and previous productions