Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
This one-woman play starring Naomi Newmann takes the audience on a restless journey through 20th-century Jewish life: from a Ukrainian shtetl to the Warsaw ghetto to Atlantic City and Miami, with side trips to a hippie commune in Connecticut and an Israeli settlement on the West Bank.
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A very heavy play, excellent in writing and magnificent in performance. It's not a play for everyone. Many people, I think, would have a difficult time with the subject matter.
I don't ususally like one man or woman shoes, but this one was a fine exception. Very real topics that hit home to me.
Fascinating bio of an interesting 80 year old well told and capivating.
I absolutely loved it! Thumbs up for Naomi Newmann !!!
Naomi does a great job, though I think the play is a bit too long. Some dialogue didn't seem to fit the times. All in all, worthwhile and educational for those not familiar with the events of that era.
excellent performance
Superb! The script, the acting were fan-tab-U-lous!!!!!
This lady is a phenominal actress. The content was riveting - I really enjoyed the sequence of events in the years from the twenties to now. I thought the ending about the trouble in Israel was too llong and a little too dramatic.
Loved the play. A tour de force of writing and acting. Sad to hear that she has elected to close earlier than planned. We had lined up some folks to see it.
"Rose" held my attention from the first line to the last.
Naomi Newman is amazing. I appreciated her timing; the various voices she performed so beautifully; her gestures - minimal and meaningful; her ability to move seamlessly from discussing tragedy with its attendant expressions and gestures, to being cheerful; her relationship with the audience while maintaining "the fourth wall." And memorizing all that material - what a feat. The projection could have been better at times, I think. It was sometimes difficult for my husband and me to hear her, more so in the second act than the first.
Ms. Newman well deserves the Best Actress award she won in 2007.
Very emotional.
Yes, there was stamina and memorization, but I felt the performance was more heavy-underlining than acting. It was, however, a matinee (with another performance scheduled that very evening as well as the previous evening) and late in the run of the play, so i can understand if the actress was fatigued with the role.
fantastic acting, wonderful dialogue
The first half was too long ...she seemeed to be rambling. Woke up after intermission and enjoyed it from then on.
It is a very powerful and moving performance. She puts her heart and soul into it. Well done.
Ms. Newmann delivered a great and touching performance.
superb one woman versatile and very authentic performance covering a long and interesting life time across three worlds and with three husbands. True to the history of the time and an exquisite portrayal of the personal affects of the drastically changing psycho-social drama of those difficult times.
I thoroughly enjoyed this production even though the subject matter was very heavy. Naomi Newman was fantastic. She played a very difficult part and did an admirable job.
Marianne S.
Very much recomended to every one and especialy if you are jewish.
Great acting and a fantastic show
engrossing, moving compelling play. incredibly well acted. recommend it highly
A tour de force one-woman show, Rose erases the lines between the personal, the historical, and the political--as well as the heart-wrenching and the hilarious. Star Naomi Newman won the Best Actress for Rose in San Francisco, 2007. The play also earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play.
Written by Martin Sherman
Naomi Newmann (Founding Member of the Traveling Jewish Theatre) is a singer, actress, writer and director. Naomi co-authored and directed ATJT’s first three ensemble pieces (Coming from a Great Distance, A Dance of Exile, and The Last Yiddish Poet). With the company’s fourth piece, Berlin, Jerusalem and the Moon, she returned to performing. In the early '70s, she was director of two important improvisational theatre companies in Los Angeles. Naomi co-created and performed in Crossing the Broken Bridge, a collaborative theatre piece on Jewish/Black relations. She has also written and performed three acclaimed solo pieces: Snake Talk: Urgent Messages from the Mother; Old, Jewish and Queer; and Fall Down Get Up. Naomi's play, Torn Ribbons, is being developed in workshop readings in San Francisco and New York, sponsored by the Magic Theatre, the Z Space and TJT and, in New York, by the Actors' Studio.
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