Come and See Off-Broadway Hit
 Iris Bahr's Dai, an intense and moving theatrical performance, brings the audience to a Tel Aviv café moments before a suicide bomber attacks. Transforming herself into many different characters, ranging from a militant settler to an Israeli ex-pat to an American Latina actress, the petite Bahr creates a vibrant, diverse, troubled, and ultimately loving portrait of Israeli society. Bahr grew up in Israel and served in the Israeli army before returning to the U.S to become an actress and comedian. She has appeared in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and has done stand-up comedy.
Dai, which means "enough" in Hebrew, was a great success Off-Broadway when it was presented by the Culture Project, and has been getting rave reviews all around the country. "We presented four performances of Dai this past January, and people are still talking about it. It is an exceptional piece of theatre, a heart wrenching and funny slice of Israeli life," says Lenore D. Naxon, director of the Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. "The top of my best list of any year," raved the critic from New York 's Nassau Herald . The New Yorker said, "BahrÂ…employs her diverse and disarming talents to bring about a single result: provoking deep sympathy for Israel and its people." |
