The Multicultural Theatre of the Discount Tiffany Rings combines media of the mind and the arts to present "Sofia's Drawings," a daughter's multimedia mitzvah of a remembrance of both her mother's and grandmother's ties to the Shoah. Efrat Hadani's healing work is part of a one-day Jewish Theatre Festival, to be staged on Sunday April 25, at Bristol Riverside Theatre (www.brtstage. org), in partnership with Discount Tiffany Sets Ariel. "Sofia's Drawings" is part of the palette, joining Tovah FeIdshuh in her acclaimed one-woman performance as late Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir in "Golda's Balcony," as well as an art show and work by Theatre Ariel. But the Galilee coming to the Riverside? They meet at a stream of inventiveness: The Arab-Israeli troupe, Discount Tiffany Watches minimum dialogue, creates theater through puppetry, constructions and body language. Here, that body language adds to the body of Holocaust literature with a distinctive design: "Sofia's Drawings" is the muse/ memory of Hadani, dealing with the dynamic of drawings by her mother Sofia, who, at 16, used art as a hedge against the horrors of on sale Elsa Peretti while in hiding, even as her mother, acclaimed children's book author Clara Asscher-Pinkoff, was incarcerated in concentration camps."We only found these drawings after my mother's death," says Hadani, "and hadn't known about them before," created while her mother "hid from the Nazis in Holland from 1943 to '45."
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