Fiddler Sub-Terrain
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 4, 2001
Closed Jan 28, 2001
Opened Jan 4, 2001
Closed Jan 28, 2001
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Oren Safdie and Ronnie Cohen (the creative team of the acclaimed Jews & Jesus from La MaMa's 1998-99 season) reunite to create Fiddler Sub-Terrain. This new play is a contemporary satire on Fiddler on the Roof, set in Montreal and dealing with Quebecoise politics. Tevye and Golde are now Teddy and Gilda, the parents of an upper-middle class family facing bankruptcy; their horse-drawn carriage is a Mercedes-Benz, soon-to-be repossessed; they live in a split-level bungalow in Cote Saint Luc, a Jewish suburb of Montreal, where Teddy endeavors to marry off his daughters, who long to get Green Cards and migrate to the U.S.; at the same time, Teddy struggles to keep his business afloat while trying to avoid being driven out by the Language Police that have enforced laws enacted in 1976 to preserve the French language on public streets and private storefronts in Quebec.
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Most Americans are at least somewhat aware of the uncomfortable relationship that the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec has with its mother country. What is probably less well-known is the social oppression that those few English-speakers still living in Quebec are said to suffer in their own homes. Many of the English speakers have long since left, but there is a large contingent of Jewish Canadians living in the province who apparently continue to experience discrimination at the hands of the "language police" and other authorities who only want French-Canadian citizens, language, and customs in the province.
It is this situation that writers Oren Safdie (book) and Ronnie [...]