(DIS]PLACE[D] - A One-Woman Show by Deborah Eliezer
The playwright and performer traces her roots through the remarkable story of her father, an Iraqi Jew born in 1930.
This one-woman show cracks open the assumptions of her own identity through the story of her father, Edward Ben-Eliezer, an Iraqi Jew born in 1930, a member of the Zionist underground in the aftermath of World War II, a refugee, Israeli spy, and an immigrant to America. Set in Iraq, pre-state Israel, and San Francisco, and giving voice to a dozen different characters—including her father at three different ages, her great grandmother, their Iraqi neighbors, and an ethereal embodiment of the Tigris Euphrates valley itself – this one-hour tour de force tells the remarkable history of the Iraqi Jewish Diaspora, as told by a daughter of that diaspora. Through this journey, Eliezer also finds a missing part of herself, “a song sung in a language I can’t understand” as she puts it.
