YOU ARE INVITED TO RACHEL & CHAIM'S WEDDING!!
Rachel & Chaim are Orthodox Jews living in Toronto.
They have requested an arranged marriage and today is their wedding day. The "Yichud Room" is the place where the bride & groom go to be alone together immediately following the wedding ceremony. In the case of Rachel & Chaim, who've only had a handful of chaperoned dates, this is the first time they have ever been alone together. In another part of the Synagogue, tensions rise between the groom's older brothers Ephraim & Menachem, rival Torah scholars who haven't seen each other in four years. Meanwhile, the bride's parents Mordechai & Malka are secretly planning to divorce after the wedding. In a last attempt to woo her back, Mordechai takes some unorthodox measures. YICHUD (Seclusion) directly confronts the tensions that exist in the Orthodox Jewish world between tradition and modernity, powerfully dramatizing issues of love, sex, marriage, faith, religion, respect, honour, and duty. The setting is specifically Jewish; the story is universal and life-affirming.
“WHEN THEATRE IS DONE WELL, THE RESULT IS GLORIOUS. YICHUD (SECLUSION) IS DONE VERY, VERY WELL. I RECOMMEND IT, VERY, VERY HIGHLY..”
-LYNN SLOTKIN, CBC RADIO |
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Price: $40.00 + HST
Warnings: Mature subject matter
University of Ottawa
Academic Hall
 Enter through main doors
After the 2 PM Saturday, June 4
Performance there is a Talkback
2 PM Monday, June 6
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Photo by Keith Barker
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