The Argentinian Prostitute Play

By Reuven Glezer

August 2019, Broadway Bound Theater Festival, Theater Row

The Argentinian Prostitute Play tells the tale of a community caught between the need for safety and the need to survive. Far from the threat of anti-Semitism in Europe, the Jewish community in 1920's Buenos Aires flourishes, as arrivals new and old are ensnared in a brutal reality that offers them anything but freedom. The historical circumstances presented here are the first time this story will be brought to the New York stage.

Content Warning: this play contains physical, gendered, and racial violence.

CAST

Bruce Jimenez as Fievel Spira/Player/Gangster

Nahar Aminov as Hanna Spira

Tessa Ramirez-Keough as Toiba Neri

Mateo Ervin as Anshel Kagan/Señora Bernal/Ghost/Croney

Ben Natan as Aaron Feibush/Fiancé

Anja Avsharian as Malka Silber

Shawn Zylberberg as Don Raphael/Officer/Client/Gangster

CREATIVE TEAM

Director: Zeynep Akça

Lighting Designer: Mike Schulz

Sound Designer: Jared Sclar

Stage Manager: Daisy Philips

Assistant Director & Fight Choreography: Jamiel Burkhart

Additional Fight Choreography: Ben Natan

Associate Sound Designer: Dana Spataru

Fight Captain: Mateo Ervin

Hebrew Consultant: Debra Caplan

Graphic Designer: Briana Liang

Production Photographer: Ruthie Lingad Sivan