"You Will Experience Silence" (or The Last Chanukah)
"YOU WILL EXPERIENCE SILENCE" (or The Last Chanukah) presents one morning in the life of a lapsed
activist. From the moment he wakes up, Ian Fleishman (Dan Fishback) is so crippled by the unreality of suffering in the world that he can
barely get dressed and go to work. As he tries to leave his apartment,
he struggles with his place in history: his own history, Jewish
history, and the history of everything bad that has ever happened, ever.
Interwoven into Ian Fleishman's neurotic monologue is the ancient story of Amos Maccabeus (Dan Fishback), the gay teenage son of Mattathias (Joseph Keckler), the pius Hebrew priest who leads the Maccabee revolt against the Syrian Greek empire, as immortalized in the Chanukah story. As a love triangle develops between Amos, his best friend Ezra (Max Steele), and the dashing Syrian Greek soldier Demetrius (Joseph Keckler), these young men reckon with their responsibilities - to their peoples, to their libidos, and to each other.
Their war-torn melodrama intersects with the lonely ramblings of Ian Fleishman on a stage that is simultaneously a bedroom, ancient Judah, modern day Iraq, and the back yard of a gay bar in Williamsburg.
Like the lovechild of Karen Finley and Woody Allen, performance artist Dan Fishback is at his most manic, most neurotic, and most insightful in this funny, profound, and at times deeply upsetting portrait of empathy in an age of isolation.
"YOU WILL EXPERIENCE SILENCE" (or The Last Chanukah) has been presented in workshop form at Dixon Place and The Center for Jewish History, and is slated for a tentative New York run in December, 2008. It is being developed under the auspices of The Six Points Fellowship. The Fellowship is a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and The Foundation for Jewish Culture, and is made possible with major funding from UJA-Federation of New York.
Interwoven into Ian Fleishman's neurotic monologue is the ancient story of Amos Maccabeus (Dan Fishback), the gay teenage son of Mattathias (Joseph Keckler), the pius Hebrew priest who leads the Maccabee revolt against the Syrian Greek empire, as immortalized in the Chanukah story. As a love triangle develops between Amos, his best friend Ezra (Max Steele), and the dashing Syrian Greek soldier Demetrius (Joseph Keckler), these young men reckon with their responsibilities - to their peoples, to their libidos, and to each other.
Their war-torn melodrama intersects with the lonely ramblings of Ian Fleishman on a stage that is simultaneously a bedroom, ancient Judah, modern day Iraq, and the back yard of a gay bar in Williamsburg.
Like the lovechild of Karen Finley and Woody Allen, performance artist Dan Fishback is at his most manic, most neurotic, and most insightful in this funny, profound, and at times deeply upsetting portrait of empathy in an age of isolation.
"YOU WILL EXPERIENCE SILENCE" (or The Last Chanukah) has been presented in workshop form at Dixon Place and The Center for Jewish History, and is slated for a tentative New York run in December, 2008. It is being developed under the auspices of The Six Points Fellowship. The Fellowship is a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and The Foundation for Jewish Culture, and is made possible with major funding from UJA-Federation of New York.
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Dan Fishback is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Dan Fishback may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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