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JUDGMENT DAYS
a pair of one-act plays on Jewish themes
by Rich Orloff
“theater with a brain and theater
with a heart”
Los Angeles Times
“A thematically ambitious drama
(with) provocative moral arguments
(and) an uncommonly complex character. Orloff must be lauded.”
Drama-Logue on KURT WAS
MY BUDDY
“Touching and truthful.”
Drama-Logue on WHERE I
CAME FROM
JUDGMENT DAYS
is a pair of plays about people who try to escape or embrace their
heritage, and the unexpected price paid for their decisions. Originally
produced by A Renegade Theatre Company in Los Angeles, where the
production ran over six months.
The plays include:
KURT WAS MY BUDDY,
set in 1986, is about a TV news anchorman who has hidden his Jewish
identity to get ahead in the business. On the day Kurt Waldheim is
elected president of Austria, the anchorman, a child of Holocaust
survivors, learns that his favorite cameraman worked for Waldheim during
World War II. (2 m., 1w., approx. 50 min.)
WHERE I CAME FROM
is about a woman in her early thirties who returns home to ask her
mother, her grandmother and her uncle about their life decades earlier
in Russia, a subject they still don’t wish to discuss or remember. When
the woman pushes the issue, she not only learns “where she came from”,
but she also gains insight and compassion into why the subject has been
repressed for so long. (3 w., 1 m., approx. 50 min.)
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