Oklahoma Samovar

In 1887, two Latvian teenagers flee the Russian Army and become the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run. A hundred years later, 20-year-old Emily tries to decipher her late mother’s mysterious request to have her ashes spread on a stranger’s farm, in a place she has never heard of. Based on the playwright’s ancestors, the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run, Oklahoma Samovar wrestles with themes of immigration, assimilation, generational trauma, and the transcendent power of mother-daughter love. In the play, five generations put down roots and dig graves, embodying their own Jewish variations on the turbulent and mythologized American dream. It is a unique and utterly human American story.