The Letters of Efratia Gitai: A Staged Reading with Marthe Keller, Ronald Guttman, and Edna Stern
Where: Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd St.
212-708-9400 Price: $12 adults; $10 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $8 full-time students with current ID. Members and children 16 and under admitted free; guests of Members $5
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© Fond Gitai pour les illustrations.
A passionate letter writer, Efratia Gitai (1909–2002) vividly expresses the experiences of a sabra, born in Palestine and belonging to a generation of young labor pioneers who helped establish the nation of Israel. Remarkably learned and cultured, Efratia spent a lifetime corresponding with her architect husband and filmmaker son, with creative thinkers and politicians, and with her intimate circle of similarly independent and accomplished female friends. On March 5, a selection of these letters is read by the Swiss actress and opera director Marthe Keller (Marathon Man, Bobby Deerfield, Dark Eyes) and the Belgian actor and producer Ronald Guttman (Hunters, On the Basis of Sex, Preacher).
Edna Stern, an award-winning Belgian-born Israeli pianist, provides musical accompaniment to the evening.
Program approx. 90 min.
The staged reading is the first of a series of events featuring Gitai’s film screenings, “In Times Like These,” through March 9th.