Imagine Dostoyevsky's "The Gambler," a newly created by Neil Simon and you'll have an idea of the flavor of shoes Zadie. Adam Pettler popular black comedy muses about faith, happiness, and compulsive behaviors, and still manages to get a lot of great yuks.
Pettle game was a huge success when premiered at Toronto's Factory Theatre in 2001 and still has quite well in society, 10th Anniversary revival. I only wish that the playwright and his co-director Jordan Pettler brother had a darker, edgier and better quality production.
Game of Jewish anti-hero, Benjamin (Joe Cobden), a writer once, a waiter in a full-time and incorrigible addiction to gambling. It seems that his obsession is genetically his Polish grandfather, or Zadie once lost a shoe in a game of cards.
Deep in the hole after a great loss (he had bet on the Toronto Maple Leafs), and turn to the other, Benjamin makes his first visit to a synagogue since his bar mitzvah. There he meets Eli (Harry cloves), a mysterious old man who said he was providing a prophet, and pearls of wisdom and advice of racing. Benjamin is just desperate enough to his faith in Eli, and all on a black horse track is situated on the Pomeranian race.
Zadie’s Shoes
Zadie’s Shoes
Zadie’s Shoes
Meanwhile, the girl Ruth Benjamin (Patricia Fagan), is also making a big gamble. Classified cancer patients, but is suitable for use, decided to try an experimental treatment in a Mexican clinic. To pay for the trip, withdrew their savings. When Benjamin stupid with money transfers, has decided - with the mad logic of a compulsive gambler - can secretly put everything on a horse and win.
To help him down to the system-the-wire, so it does not help pal Benjamin nervous on the old track, Bear (William MacDonald), self-styled "alcohol addict gambleholic, which have only recently started a clean and sober.
Pettle opposes this darkly humorous script with two sisters, Ruth age: fragile Beth (Lisa Ryder), a professional curling irons now on a good run and flaky Lily (Shannon Perreault), the latest identity is that it is a vegetarian, Buddhist pot smoking. Pettle uses them as variations on the themes of his happiness and faith, and milk-related humor quarrelsome siblings.
Pettle game was a huge success when premiered at Toronto's Factory Theatre in 2001 and still has quite well in society, 10th Anniversary revival. I only wish that the playwright and his co-director Jordan Pettler brother had a darker, edgier and better quality production.
Game of Jewish anti-hero, Benjamin (Joe Cobden), a writer once, a waiter in a full-time and incorrigible addiction to gambling. It seems that his obsession is genetically his Polish grandfather, or Zadie once lost a shoe in a game of cards.
Deep in the hole after a great loss (he had bet on the Toronto Maple Leafs), and turn to the other, Benjamin makes his first visit to a synagogue since his bar mitzvah. There he meets Eli (Harry cloves), a mysterious old man who said he was providing a prophet, and pearls of wisdom and advice of racing. Benjamin is just desperate enough to his faith in Eli, and all on a black horse track is situated on the Pomeranian race.
Meanwhile, the girl Ruth Benjamin (Patricia Fagan), is also making a big gamble. Classified cancer patients, but is suitable for use, decided to try an experimental treatment in a Mexican clinic. To pay for the trip, withdrew their savings. When Benjamin stupid with money transfers, has decided - with the mad logic of a compulsive gambler - can secretly put everything on a horse and win.
To help him down to the system-the-wire, so it does not help pal Benjamin nervous on the old track, Bear (William MacDonald), self-styled "alcohol addict gambleholic, which have only recently started a clean and sober.
Pettle opposes this darkly humorous script with two sisters, Ruth age: fragile Beth (Lisa Ryder), a professional curling irons now on a good run and flaky Lily (Shannon Perreault), the latest identity is that it is a vegetarian, Buddhist pot smoking. Pettle uses them as variations on the themes of his happiness and faith, and milk-related humor quarrelsome siblings.
