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REBECCA BARTLETT (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Rebecca Bartlett, nee McCann, born in 1950, Belfasrt, educated at Fortwilliam Dominican College and Queen's University Belfast, BA, Honours, English and History, Drama Teacher, Married Tom Bartlett, Professor of Irish History, Actress with Druid Theathre Company Galway and Director of Galway Youth Theatre, currently freelance director and playwright, 2 sons, Thomas, born 1977 and James born 1982 and one daughter, Amelia, Amy, born 1979.
Plays by Rebecca Bartlett
Shalom Belfast! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belfast Royal Academy, as part of a tour to schools and venues | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Replay Productions, Belfast, Ireland | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.linenhall.com/, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2300 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | The original production also included one musician and members of the cast performed as a chorus | |||||
Notes: | A play for 14-18 year olds about the contribution made by the immigrant Jewish community to the economic, social and cultural diversity of Northern Ireland in the 20th century. | |||||
Synopsis: | Surviving the persecution of the May Laws raging in their Lithuanian homeland, Jews Miriam Kozetski and her son Yitzchak come to Belfast in 1896 to build a new life. Gradually they come to terms with the complexity of this new place they call home, though Miriam fervently guards her Lithuanian-Jewish identity while Yitzchak longs to be at ease with his peers as an Irish Jew. When it comes to the next generation, the preservation of identity takes another turn, proving both restricting and defining, while fresh challenges lie ahead for the larger Belfast Jewish community with the outbreak of World War Two. | |||||
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