Theater Group Limited Presents: If You Were Really There

Description

Deborah Lubar, known and loved for creating performances which could be described as conjured distillations in story form of the human spirit at its best, performs her first new play in many years at THT on November 7 and 8.

Whether an imagined portrait of Eve's version of her days in the garden of Eden; a play based upon a very real woman who was a prominent and outrageously brave (even for those days) member of the resistance against Hitler, Jewish and Palestinian's women's stories as they struggle with the immense literal and emotional complexities of their lives in Israel/Palestine, or a dream play based on Deborah's meetings with Bosnian women who survived the demented horrors of that war, her plays are always complex evocations of complex people navigating a complex world.

In her new one-woman play, If You Were Really There, this remarkable character actress brings to full life an aging actress as she speaks a raucous and loving thanks to her many audiences and several very real and one imagined remarkable old woman who are equally skilled at raising hell or heaven - women of enormous courage, humor, and faith in the ultimate goodness of life - brought to the stage with Lubar's usual skill in calling forth laughter, deep silence, tears, assenting grunts and other companiable responses from her audience on a regular basis.