JArts Theatreworks Group Presents
You Will Not Play Wagner
In Memory of Playwright Victor Gordon
Directed by Lilia Levitina
Starring Annette Miller, Avi Hoffman, and Ofek Cohen
Tuesday, November 16 at 7:00 PM EST

Is it acceptable to play the music of a known anti-Semite?

Richard Wagner’s music has been informally banned in Israel on the grounds that the German composer was promoted during the Nazi era as Hitler’s favorite composer.

You Will Not Play Wagner takes place in New York City and Tel Aviv as the characters Zoom across the COVID-19 plagued world. Ya’akov, a young Israeli upstart, provokes an uproar when he chooses to perform Wagner in the finals of an international competition for conductors. He comes into conflict with Esther, a Holocaust survivor and competition patron who has her own tragic connection with Wagner’s music, and Morris, the competition's organizer.

Their arguments push the competition to the brink. Should Ya'akov conduct Wagner? Should the politics of the composer interfere with the quality of his art? To what extent do we honor the memory of the Holocaust, its survivors and their descendants, without stifling the next generation? And would a Jewish Israeli conducting Wagner be treachery or triumph?

South African playwright Victor Gordon adapted his play for Zoom just before he passed away from COVID-19. This film is in his memory.

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Credits:

Starring:
Annette Miller as Esther Greenbaum
Ofek Cohen as Ya'akov
Avi Hoffman as Morris Shapiro

Directed by Lilia Levitina

Screen adaptation:

Anna Ampleyeva and Lilia levitina
Concept Anna Ampleeva

Boston Crew:
Director of Photography Rick Macombe
Assistant DP Norman Lang
Assistant DP Christo Tsiaras
Sound Billy Rosenthal
Make-up by Elizabeth Stockman
Production Assistant Melody Mason
Violin player/Esther’s childhood self Olga Kamiinsky

Tel-Aviv Crew:
Producer Ernest Aranov
Director of Photography Rolik Novitsky
Assistant DP Arina Ger
Sound Michael Gurevich

Production Assistants:
Lena Charash and Moti Zahavi
Tamir Kurtatinsky
Alexei Benshtain

Musical Score:
Mark Galinovsky
Lucas Syed

Editor & Sound Editor Christo Tsiaras

Special Thanks:
Anat and Yael Zahavi
Nadine Rosinoer
Olga Minsky
Michael Miller
Max Lifshin
John Escobar
Claudio Ragazzi
Michael Savikovsky
Zvi Polunsky
Emily Romm
Eugene and Eva Kaminsky
Michael Teplitsky at Theater Malenky
Gilad Alon & Bruno Amir at Cafe May 6
Govane Lohbauer at Shakespeare & Co
Ido Solomon at F.A.B. Defense
Mark Levitin
Ella Nikolaevsky
Maria Koreneva

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