Bath Tub
Productions has announced that the off-off Broadway extension of the hit play Bath
Party at HERE Arts Center (145 Avenue of the Americas between Spring and Broome) starring Israeli film and TV star Meital Dohan has been put on hold in lieu of it being picked up by
commercial producers . The extension was to begin Saturday, October 22nd
and run through November 20th, but the show will receive a commercial Off-Broadway transfer in the spring of 2006 instead.
Co-written by Dohan, Karen Shefler and Ayelet
Dekel, and directed by Shefler (Blood Wedding at CSV and The Theatre
of the Riverside Church), the show is Dohan's "personal story of her long-distance infatuation with America. She's a star in
her home country, but in America, she's just another immigrant in search of the
American Dream. Nearly nude with a bath tub as her pulpit and a video screen, a
Filipino manicurist and a gay Texan stage manager as her co-stars, the stunning
Ms. Dohan dances, sings and waxes on about everything American from nationality
and identity to the globalization of American culture. She draws parallels
from her experience to that of immigrants universally. The show is a 21st
Century compendium of pop-cultural ideas with an unrelenting beat and even a Charlie's Angels style action sequence."Dohan has appeared in dozens of theater, television and movie
productions. In Israel, Meital was a recipient of the America-Israel Fund
Scholarships and the Cameri Scholarship for Young Actors. She received the
Theatre Academy's Most Promising Actress Award for the year 2000. Her film
credits include leading roles in Giraffes and God's Sandbox
(winner of several international film festival awards and openiIng in
America later this month), with both roles earning her the Israeli
Oscar nomination. She is currently appearing on Israeli Television
Channel 2's series Ugly Esti that was
awarded the Golden Screen Award for 2003.
The remainder of Bath Party's
artistic team consists of Ayelet Dekel (as Israeli footage video
director as well as co-writer), Adolfo Doring (American footage video
director), David Bernard Ambrose (video designer), Rich Benjamin PhD
(consultant), Annie Nocenti (Dramaturg) and Timothy Haskell (fight
choreographer).
