A Musical Play (Theater)

Sister Sara, a blind Christian nun of Khazar origin, is the heroine of this play.
Beneath her veil, she brings forth from the past the unique Jewish identity of the Khazar nation, long forgotten by history.
For claiming that the Holy Virgin Mary appeared to her while she was witnessing a pogrom, she was accused of blasphemy and heresy.

Her statements about the Holy Mother are reported to the Holy Synod. She is then brought before a tribunal, presided over by a Judge and three accusers, and delivered into their spiritual authority.
“Under the cross of Christ, I understood the fate of my people…”, she declares to one of her accusers.
Ultimately condemned by the Church, she is stripped of her veil.
Like her Khazar ancestors who once embraced Judaism, and despite her blindness, Sister Sara — guided like a Joan of Arc by voices — rediscovers the mystery of the election of the Jewish people.

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Notes:

In Russia, tradition, culture, and religion have long favored imagination and the interpretation of dreams over reason and logic. Misfortunes and fatal events were often explained by occult forces or entities from the beyond.

During the 19th century, the upper classes — along with certain members of the Orthodox religious authority — experienced an acute crisis of mysticism. Even the Tsars themselves succumbed to religious exaltation, engaging in spiritualism, divination, and astrology. Magicians, mediums, shamans, and seers found a place not only at the Imperial Court but even within the Church itself.

Throughout the Russian dynasty led by the Romanovs — from Peter the Great in 1672 to Nicholas II, deposed in 1917 — all the Tsars viewed, often with the complicity of fiercely antisemitic clergymen, the movements aiming at the elimination of Jews (pogroms) with a benevolent eye.

The Jews were hated, persecuted, hunted down, and massacred like animals… Yet this very suffering sparked the awakening of a consciousness — one that would eventually evolve into the birth of Zionism.

Synopsis

Steve (30 years old) is an actor, and occasionally, even a stage director. But unfortunately, for a while now, he has a hard time finding an acting job.

Frustrated and desperate in not finding a role that fits him, he decides, (in order to eat and live) that while waiting for this role, he will take whatever work the job center will propose to him. And so, he accepts the position of a nurse’s aide in a Retirement Home.

Tom’s River – New-Jersey

Saint-John’s Institute (Residence for the elderly)

Resigned, Steve decides to put his heart and mind into this job and show real compassion for these “gramps and grans” of the retirement home.

One beautiful morning, in the large common room, he hears one of the new residents, a beautiful and proud African-American octogenarian. A lady that always has a flower stuck in her hair, the one who is known throughout the residence as “Lady Rose”, singing while playing the piano that is placed in the corner of the room.

Surprised and fascinated by her voice, but aware at the same time that she has some difficulty in remembering the words of the song, he approaches her and immediately recognizes this piece of Billie Holliday’s (I’m a fool to want you) and starts singing with her…Followed by another piece (My man) he is surprised, once more, to find that other residents have joined them and are humming the tune with them.

This moment resonates in him and from then onwards will forever change the lives and routines of some of the residents of this Home (yet will also bring up the reluctance of most of his colleagues and will certainly provoke the hostility of the manager of the Retirement Home).

Steve, who loves the theatre and appreciates Blues, Jazz and Soul music, has an idea to use his knowledge and take a chance and put on a show with the “elders”…

And yes, why not even a musical comedy?

The principal role will feature, of course, Lady Rose, but all the other roles will be played, naturally, by the “guys” and “gals” of the residence, who are all excited by this project.

To his great joy he will benefit from the collaboration of Samantha (a lovely girl 25 years old) a nurse, who is in love with him from the first moment she saw him and Gregory (an African-American 60 years old) who is the guardian and the gardener of the Retirement Home. He is a veteran tap dancer who is more than happy to be in charge of the choreography of the show.

He is letting them use, in secret, the old barn for their rehearsals and organizes for them a few nights out, escaping into town to the music bars in the area.

The miracle will work despite all the problematic rehearsals, given the age of the participants and therefore all the awkward situations that derive from it.

But all the actors of this adventure will surprise Steve…and how…

And with perseverance and hard work and despite all the problems he faced regarding his colleagues and the manager of the Home, the piece is finally ready and done.

They are going to surprise everyone at the Retirement Home at the end of the year party, performing before visitors and families, who will be utterly amazed.

There will be talk of this show well beyond the Residence’s walls. It will even reach the ears of the mayor of Philadelphia, who will offer them the Grand Theatre for a one night show.

But things will not stop there, either for Steve (for his future career of course) or for the show itself…Because an important producer in the show-biz will have a big project in mind after he sees the show.

Therefore, six months later we are going to participate in a Grand opening night in a Broadway theatre featuring “Lady Rose”…with the presence of the mayor of New-York and all the who’s who of the theatre world…

Notes:

“Lady Rose” is a story about the generosity and warmness of the human soul.

Despite of certain comic situations, the story treats the issues of the elderly with dignity.

It shows sensibility and reflection on the subject, and sparks good feelings towards the subjects.

We try and present the third and fourth age groups in a new way.

We therefore are immediately sympathetic towards these “elderly”, who are the heroes of this comedy, and appreciate the fact that one day, when we are old, we too would be able to sing and dance and appreciate life like they do…

An important life lesson for us all…

(WGA Registration).

SYNOPSIS/

Having been convicted of murder and given the death penalty, he is awaiting his execution on the electric chair.

However, in the corridor of death, a strange character occupies the cell next to him: aggressive and nasty, it appears to be HIS BAD CONSCIENCE. This is when a second character of bizarre appearance will in turn occupy the other cell next to him: it turns out to be HIS GOOD CONSCIENCE.

These strange individuals will impose themselves to the end.

It is one of these “ personified consciences” that will suggest to our intellectually and failed writer to take up his pen again. It will prompt him to begin a diary in which he will record all his felling of terror and anguish in the face of his programmed death.

The story, entitled “ John Sullivan’s Diary” and published shortly before his execution, will, paradoxally, become a best-seller in the USA  and will rehabilitate the writer in the eyes of the literary critics.

Interspersed sequences show parts of the diary being read at a literary gathering at the home of the Washington senator, passages of America’s book of the moment. Consequently, it will be dicussed in the drawing rooms of leading citizens and traditional thinkers whenever the polemic of capital punishment in the USA arises. These scenes will bring to the fore during these social gatherings, the fellings of both the abolitionists and staunch supporters of the death penalty.

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Notes

The idea of death will thus subject these two outer “consciences” to a double, perhaps triple, confrontation with the condemned man’s own conscience. The first, that will make our wretched doomed man identical to all other individuals.

The second that will reflect himself, that is to say his own conscience that will distinguish between the real and the unreal. And the one that will withdraw like a kind of split personality. They will become reunited just before his execution, becoming a single person in the face of death.

We shall thus witness the detachment that will exalt the relationship between reality,the man prey to his obsessions, his terror, his suffering, his nightmares and the” conciences” characters that are the total opposite in the face of death, being calm and serene.

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The play will draw freely on passages from Victor Hugo’s “ Le dernier jour d’un condamné”

The play could be situated in our times as the electric chair is still used in the state of Virginia.

1. (US Copyright and WGA Registration)

Synopsis

The neighborhood of Harlem, New-York

At this day, a young and pretty single Doris (25 years old) returns from her vacation in California and announces to her parents, the exuberant Daisy (50 years old) and the grumpy but canning Harry (60 years old), that she met a young man over there (Ricky, 30 years old) and that they are planning to move in together and are greatly in love.

As we can imagine, there will be talk of marriage in this story and that will not be a problem because all of the characters are from African-American origin.

Yet, a problem will arise when the social status of the two families will be discussed between mother and daughter.

…and from then onwards things are going to get complicated…

Because the ravishing Doris, impressed by the position of her future father-in-law, a respected cardiologist in Los-Angeles, did not dare to admit that her parents own a small snack-bar in the popular neighborhood of Harlem.

She is going to lie and pretend that her father is a …Pasteur Reverend and the leader of his community.

Entangled in this lie she is trying, with the help of her mother and their Latino neighbor Dolores (35 years old good natured woman), to convince her poor, grumpy father to disguise himself as a Reverend. All this because her future in-laws have decided to come up from California, to participate in their son’s request for her hand in marriage.

After the anger has receded, her father, although perplexed by the idea of impersonating a reverend, decides to go along with it.

He is going to insist on one thing: that his two friends, who are regulars in his bar, Ahmet (55 years old) a Pakistani Muslim who is a taxi driver and David (45 years old) a fellow small business owner of Jewish origins, will both be present in order to support him.

And in order to have a religious ambiance, David will disguise himself as an Orthodox Rabi and Ahmet as an Imam.

And so this is the house, with its three “rogues”, who have taken upon themselves religious roles that will receive the future son-in-law with his family.

This will be a very comic situation for this brave man, with his accomplices, who are going to pass as men of faith and are going to surprise everyone, including the important Professor of medicine and his wife.

They are going, therefore, to make us dive into this equivocal situation that will never be embarrassing, ridicules or biased.

…And so appears a real theatrical success story…

Are our false religious men going to be discovered…and under what circumstances?

(WGA Registration).

Albert Maman

“Even the most demanding score in Occidental music(…) is nothing but an incomplete row of signposts waiting for the musician to seize the direction. Music is inseparable from improvisation, from openness to time. Most of all, music is inseparable from freedom”

Olivier Revault d’Allones

Concert Hall year 2014

Poster: 1 ) part : Concerto of Mendelssohn E-re-minor

2 ) part : Concerto of Alexis Llioukine

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“Stradivarius” is the story of Schmuel Filder , virtuoso violinist, born in Odessa (USSR).

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1968: The Prague Spring.

Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia.

With numerous artists and dissidents, Schmuel demonstrates in Moscow’ Red Square, an act of resistance towards the political and totalitarian system. Arrested for dissidence and treason, Schmuel is condemned to 20 years in the soviet gulag.

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Siberia gulag 1970

Schmuel still has his violin at his fingertips.

He has lost nothing of his skill, but he his no longer a freeman.

On his way to the barracks one day, Schmuel is attacked by some fellow prisoners.

A group of gypsies rush to his aid.

Joska, one of the younger gypsies, becomes Schmuel’s friend after the fight is over.

They share the same passionate love for music that expresses the voice of the people.

Alexis Lloukine becomes the camp commandant. An ex-officer of the Red Army and a former People’s Commissar, he’s as cold hearted as any other prison warder.

Yet he loves music …Borodine, Tchaïkovsky, Shostakovtich, Beethoven…and Mozart.

Alexis composes music in his free time and dreams of conducting an orchestra.

Since many of his prisoners are musicians, Alexis forms a small orchestra with his mistress Tatiana, at center stage playing the piano.

Alexis immediately recognises the talent of Schmuel and Joska the gypsy.

But he asks for nothing less than robotic precision,and tolerates no deviation from sacrosanct score.

Joska, however, hails from the gypsy culture and cannot read music. When Joska improvises freely during a rehearsal, he signs his own death sentence. Alexis will stand for no music that smacks of life and liberty.

Only Schmuel, thanks to his immense talent, is the one of the orchestra members whose work pleases Alexis.

But everything separates these two men.

Everything will set them against each other …

One work of music: a concerto composed by the Commandant…

…A concerto given wings through the interpretation of the jewish musician in the years after his liberation …

…A musical theme developed across 20 years by two radically different artist… Both in love with the same woman. For one man, it is a cry of passion…and the second man transcends his desire in a soaring hymn to freedom and love of music.

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2014 Back to Concert Hall…

Schmuel plays…

Several dissonant chords as the musician raps his bow across the violin strings. He bows to the public …(Silence)…He adjusts his violin, presses it carefully against the hollow of his shoulder…He takes a last look at the concert hall, now bathed in shadows…The first, desperately bittersweet notes of the concerto fill the room.

Eyes closed as he plays, Schmuel flashes back to the images of his past…

…that is when he sees Tatiana.

Schmuel hardly dares to look at center seat in the fourth row.

…Tatiana the mistress of Alexis the camp Commandant.

Yes, but it is to her in part that he owes his life

What is she thinking now?

What is her mind at this precise instant as she listens to the concerto for violin and piano composed by her lover Alexis Lloukine, arranged by the jewish dissident Schmuel Filder, and dedicated to the memory of Joska the gypsy…………

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SACD (France)

Copyright of Russia

Synopsis/

Red Hook District New York……

LENA (an ex prostitute 58 year-old, very beautiful slave woman), who no longer walks the streets and after the death of her protector-pimp- has succeeding in being the owner of a restaurant and two shops situated in Red Hook district in New York. She no longer walks the pavement after the death of her protector, and who believed she had deserved her new respectability and sheltered from racketing, sees herself in danger.

But who dares deprive her from her lon-desired favours? So who is trying to turn her beautiful 25 year-old daughter’s clothes shop upside down? Who, in the world tried to put on fire the shop Lena rents to ISY, the old tailor? And who dares try to upset her in her own restaurant?

But who is it ?…

It’s LI WONG (45 year-old) a man from the “Triades” the Chinese Mafia who scours all of “Chinatown”, feeling he has his sights fixed high has become the big boss when his elder friends and big shots retired.

Lena’s restaurant is next door to all shops and fast foods which have all replaced the old bars and small clothes shop .Today all you see are luxury stores new and very modern businesses but mostly sex shops .All this new environment can only attract the new sharks, and Li Wong has let his thgs loose in the streets to scare and intimidate Lena and force her to give in all she has.

Li Wong simply forgat he was dealing with the one woman whom we used to call “LENA THE CZARINA” when she walked the pavement between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Lena is certainly not going to give up and wants to have it her own way because she still knows the big guys there at the “Lady”.

But who are they?

Those guys of old days, the days when she walked the streets between TriBeCa, Hells Kitchen and The Bowery Districts. The real guys from the New York mob of course who know how to deal, handle and get big fire arms big machine guns.

First there is “DON LUIGI”(65 year- old) once a real big boss and Justice of the Peace who was clever enough to stop right on time and who owns a theater in New Jersey.

Second man is JOE THE ARTIST” ( 60 year- old), once the terror of evildoers .He is today a re-known international sculptor. He is a specialist in crushing old cars, and certainly making much more money than during his thefts.

“CRAZY JACK” aka “OLD BATTERED JACK” (55 year-old) ex -boxing champion whose career end badly but who finally has become the manager of a boxing practice after he got out of jail.

…And then there is also others who will lend a hand:

1) LEE (25 year-old) the afro-american giant, an ex junky whom Lena helped get out of his drug addiction and who has tuned cook in her restaurant.

2) STANLEY ” (70 year-old) a ex-green beret and Vietnam hero who is a regular in her restaurant, collects antique weapons and whom Lena turns on.

3) “RICK THE ROCKER”(25 year- old) aka “THE WEASEL”, the big Blade and knife specialist and at times extremely vicious.

4) “HANDSOME RAY” (35 year- old) ,a real playboy. He is Don Luigi’s son. He is shooting champion, idealist bank robber who has always fought for the disinherited and the poor.

ALL these guys are going to get together to be the new gang fighting against LI WONG and his gang. It sure is going to be a great mobilization on both sides and there will be no rules all fights, blows and dirty tricks allowed.

Now LI WONG is going to hold Lena’s daughter as hostage and he believes he has the key, thinks he is the master and the law. …..But he will be defeated after a real and big gunfight where everyone will not come out safe.

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Notes

You will certainly notice that this script remind us of the ” 7 Samouraïs” ,the famous film directed by Akiro Kurozawa but of course this time in New York.

This film has been considered the most famous Japanese film in the history of actionfilms. It has exerted a great influence on the world movies and we know of manyadaptations amongst which“ The Magnificent Seven” by John Sturges.

“Gunfight at Red Hooks District” one film of the same genre…The most striking characters are Lena the gorgeous and flamboyant woman but mostly a few gangsters, men of honor having their own rules and codes of honor. They have a trigger handy, they also know nonetheless have a taste for the show and have a real style for doing what they believe is right.

Their special “Code of Honor “which can be compared to the one of the “Bushido” of the Japanese Samouraïs.

Of course this code has nothing to do with the vision of the world their so-called enemies, the gangs of the racketeers whose only aim and choice are to betray the”Code of Honor” of the Mob.

The scenario was originally written in French, setting the action in the Center of Paris. The translation in american should take this into account and not be translated word for word. Therefore the translator would have to “eel “real close and in connivence with the original script and give the right tone of the action and mostly be able to adapt and findin the dialogues the particular slang words of the different areas and districts of New-York.

The theme of the story should also be handled in a sort of epic way “The 7 Samouraïs” way so to speak mixing realism, action, humanism and at times , humor.

What goes without saying in this project is the choice of the actors who will certainly contribute greatly to its success. The casting and the choice of the characters, just as in “The Magnificent Seven” by John Sturges had largely contributed to the dynamism and reputation of the film.

The ideal casting is of course left to the producers, thus the heroine and all the other characters come from different communities. This fact could also be changed according to the preselected actors hence the microcosm of the traditional New York mafias could be used ,i.e italian mafia, irish, jewish, russian etc……

There will also be 4 parts as in these great films ie John Sturges’s and Kurozawa’s.

1) Intimidation before the racketing     2) The recruiting of the whole gang and their role   3) The fight between the 2 clans    4) The outcome.

(US Copyright and WGA Registration)

SYNOPSIS

NEW YORK

KARL (25 years old) knows his father, ALFRED B., is going to die soon and this is the reason why he made him come.

He also knows his father will not to dictate his will but wants to reveal to him the story of his life. A life Karl knows almost nothing about. What has been the destiny of Alfred B., a German Jew, born in Berlin at the beginning of the century?

What has been his life like? His Jewish youth? How did he survive the Holocaust?

And with a tense, broken voice, Alfred B. starts telling his story. It is a confession that will bind father and son far beyond words and sentences.

Alfred B. was born in a poor district of Berlin. He had just finished his last year at the University. It was that year too that he met Hans T.

Hans T. came from a rich Berlin family established in one of the beautiful houses in the city center.

However Hans T. was a hard worker and above all he had a passion for literature.

Alfred and Hans attended the same classes. The young men thus met very often. When Alfred’s turn came to deliver lectures to his fellow students, Hans always listened to him in total admiration.

It was at the end of a lecture that Hans finally approached Alfred.

Hans then invited Alfred out for a drink. They discussed until late at night. At dawn the two young men separated, the best of friends.

One day Hans met MARINA. She was beautiful. Hans and Marina got married in 1932. Alfred was Hans’ witness.

When Hitler triumphed in the 1933 elections, a lot of Jews finally agreed to leave, desperate, convinced that nothing could stop the lethal power of National-Socialism. Not Alfred. He wanted to stay for simple reasons of dignity.

But “Cristal night” threw him into deep despair.

There was a long discussion between Hans and Alfred. Hans’s idea was simple: Alfred must come to live with them. Marina approved her husband. Alfred accepted to move in.

Hans and Marina wanted a baby. He was born and he was named Heinrich.

The prisoner in the attic was not wasting his time. He spent his time writing. He wrote without a break, all day long and even part of the night.

In the end, he had written a novel.

Alfred then started a new manuscript: another novel.

When he had finished this second manuscript, he felt obliged to show it to Hans and Marina.

Marina was crying when she finished reading. Emotion, friendship, something else? Hans was also enthusiastic but in his own way.

-This must be published!…At all costs! he added.

The three friends discussed Alfred’s manuscript and the solution came about very naturally. It must be published. But it had to be with Hans name, that of an irreproachable Aryan.

Within a few weeks, the work of Alfred B. in the Germany of Third Reich, an unknown Jewish scholar from a poor neighborhood in Berlin, became a bestseller under the name of Hans T.

Alfred became caught up in his own game. He went on writing because he could not do otherwise. It was the only possible solution. He wrote every day more and more. And Hans continued publishing the books in his own name.

Alfred had so many things to say. However he came to realize something. He did not doubt Hans’ friendship and honesty.

All laughs aside, this masquerade was purely a question of style. Hans was caught up in the game: he had become comfortable in the shoes of a famous author. But everything would be cleared up after Hitler’s defeat. That was obvious.

The winds of this defeat began blowing. The Reich was definitely falling apart.

Hans had to leave for the Eastern front. They needed officers badly.

Life was going on in Berlin. And there was Marina.

Alfred and Marina became lovers very naturally. They did not feel guilty. Their love was beyond any morality. But who could speak of morality in any case in those crazy times? Did Hans experience any guilt, when he claimed the authorship of works he would have been hard put to produce?

Europe was being destroyed. Alfred and Marina loved each other.

Marina died.

Almost every day the allied planes flew over the city dropping their deadly bombs. There had been no warning siren on this raid. She was struck down right on the doorstep of the family home.

Hans T. returned shortly there after. Looking miserable and disheveled. The city was being furiously bombarded. Alfred informed him of Marina’s death and immediately Hans left the house. Alfred only remembered the image of this officer in a ragged uniform, standing in front of his ruined home, his son Heinrich clinging to him.

Leaving the house, Alfred started to wander around. He walked aimlessly in the middle of the collapsing world he hated.

He survived.

Germany was defeated.

Alfred was naturally taken in charge by the allied health services.

One year later he was then forced to make a choice, either stay in Europe or go to the United States. His choice was the United States.

In 1948, he became a professor of compared literature at Kent University. It was at about that time that the novels by Hans T. were published in the United States. Most of the books became bestsellers very quickly. Alfred did not fell particularly bitter about it. They belonged to his past.

And then, one day, Hans T. found him. That day, Alfred was giving a lecture in a full amphitheater. He noticed Hans very quickly sitting in the last row.

When he was finished and the students had left the room, the two men remained alone.

Hans had not changed much. He had grown older of course but he still had that somehow conquering air. The world belonged to him, by right. Was he not the famous writer known throughout the world? The famous Hans T., author of books written in the horror of the last world war.

-“Your books?”

-“Yours” Hans protested. We can inform the press today of the masquerade if you like. I am not an impostor. You know your books had to be published and it was the only way.

Alfred saw no need or reason for a public disclosure. He was even very fond of this secret that belonged to the most intense part of his life, because it was also the secret of his love for Marina.

Given Hans’ agitation, there was something else at stake. He guessed Hans’ request before it was ever formulated. He understood how uncomfortable Hans’ situation was.

-“Without you, I am nothing.”

His publishers were constantly harassing him, not understanding his sudden silence. How could this author who produced such masterpieces in the midst of the nazi hell, be so silent.

Hans looked almost pitiful. Alfred knew Hans was telling the truth.

-“Perhaps I stole your fame, but you had the joy of creation recognized and I had only the illusion of it. And I still need to hang on to this. Alfred you must continue writing …for me.”

Alfred looked at his friend closely. Hans was finished. Hans was ruined like his home under the bombing. He pitied him. He would probably forgive him if Hans spoke about Marina. But Hans did not speak of Marina, not one single word.

-“All right” said Alfred “ I will give you one last novel. For you“.

He felt scorn at Hans’ relief.

It took him a year gathering his old notes, but in the end it was all there: Marina, their love, the story of the passion that had destroyed his life.

The book was published a few months later and became an international bestseller almost overnight.

Hans committed suicide within days of the publication.

Hans’ death never freed nor rehabilitated Alfred in the eyes of the world. First Marina, then Hans. Alfred remained alone, unbearably alone with his secret.

Everything has been said, there is nothing left. Nothing but an old man with lost eyes and gnarled hands. Karl knew he must now leave and let the inevitable follow its course. Alfred wanted to remain with Marina’s ghost.

A few days later, in New York Jewish cemetery, Karl was meditating on the tomb of his father, a man who was still enigma to him and who had been buried forever with his secret.

(US Copyright and WGA Registration)

SHARON (45 years old) is a Chef (head cook woman) in a fashionable French gastronomic restaurant in Manhattan. Her assistant chef is LILAH (40 years old and a very beautiful woman).

The story begins in the kitchen of the establishment where the two cooks are busy at work.

Ah, but Sharon loves Lilah and Lilah loves Sharon. And our two lesbians are a couple. Not only that but Sharon is a WASP and Lilah, having Pakistani origins, is a Muslim.

Their relationship however is about to undergo an upheaval when JOANNA, a jewish girl, waitress at the restaurant, introduces her boyfriend, a future rabbi, announcing at the same time that they are to be married.

Confronted with the unexpected, it will be Lilah, the Muslim, who will have to act at being a “Yiddish mamma” on the day their engagement is celebrated.

And what could have been a drama develops into a crazy comedy as the story bounces from one hilarious situation to another.

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Notes

To write and develop a story concerning lesbians is not without risk. The main pitfalls being gratuitous vulgarity and too many jokes of a dubious sexual nature.

This has all, I hope, been avoided.

What must therefore be ensured in both the production and the directing is that neither overly stresses the clichés and labels attached to these women.

The two actresses playing the lesbians must therefore have a natural simplicity and connivance to avoid the obvious linked to their homosexual state.

The story is a comedy in which Sharon and Lilah’s relationship will face problems.

They must be lovable, never ridiculous, and endearingly comical. In short, gay women and gaity together.

The principal reasons that make the story interesting:

- It contains all the qualities of comedy or vaudeville with its truculent verbal sparring.

- The singular relationship between the three women, one protestant, the other muslim, the third jewish (a message that nonetheless avoids ambiguity and compromise).

- A larger-than-life Jewish mother performed with brio by a Pakistani woman.

- Our two women’s occupation in life: skilled Chefs in a gastronomic restaurant attired in their spotless aprons and chef’s hats.

- A story that continually underlines the shame gays and lesbians feel when admitting their difference.

- And it includes the category of society still prisoner of a certain morality.

(US Copyright and WGA Registration)