Poster by Robert Sauber
Play by Ellen W. Kaplan
Based on the book of the same name by Yvonne David
Directed by Nicole Raphael
Set Design by Robert Sauber
Inspired by Joseph Stein’s Fiddler on the Roof, based on Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman, and A Christmas Carol. by Charles Dickens. Out of the Apple Orchard contains similar universal themes: making mistakes, rectifying errors, asking for forgiveness, and creating a new beginning.
We see an immigrant Jewish family who has escaped Lithuania arrive in New York City for a better life. Adam Bieman’s Bubbe, his grandmother, shares with him the injustices of discrimination through antisemitism. In the fall of 1910, the family moves from the Lower East Side to the hamlet of Mountaindale in the Catskills for fresh country air. Papa is too sick to work and food is scarce. Twelve-year-old Adam Bieman is hungry and sees the apples in the orchard on his way to school. He cannot resist the ripe, red fruit. Soon his troubles begin.
The young boy wrestles with a need to feed his family, but his mischievous choices tear at his conscience. By making up for his wrongdoings and asking for forgiveness, Adam discovers a kind, compassionate humanity.
DOUBLE PERFORMANCE
Sunday. September 10
#1 - 3:00 pm PERFORMANCE
#2 - 7:00 pm PERFORMANCE
Monday, September 11
#3 - 7:00 pm PERFORMANCE
Tuesday, September 12
#4 - 7:00 pm PERFORMANCE
DOUBLE PERFORMANCE
Wednesday, September 13
#5 - 3:00 pm PERFORMANCE
#6 - 7:00 pm PERFORMANCE
Thursday, September 14
#7 - 7:00 pm PERFORMANCE
Tickets will be available in Mid June, 2023
ORLANDO PREMIERE HELD AT THE ORLANDO REPERTORY THEATRE
DECEMBER 19-23, 2016
Out of the Apple Orchard
TRIPLE AWARD-WINNING TEAM:
Author, Yvonne David,
Playwright Ellen W. Kaplan
and Director Kenny Howard,
a Tony Award-Winning Producer
Influenced by Joseph Stein’s Fiddler on the Roof, based on Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman, Out of the Apple Orchard shows how faith and family hold one another together through hard times. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens also inspired Yvonne David to explore similar themes of hunger, forgiveness, healing and new beginnings in Out of the Apple Orchard, Book 1 in the Apple Tree Series.
In the fall of 1910, a Jewish family, recent immigrants from the Old Country, moves from the Lower East Side of New York City to the hamlet of Mountaindale in the Catskills for fresh country air. Papa is too sick to work and food is scarce. On his way to school, twelve-year-old Adam Bieman is hungry and sees the apples in the Friedland Orchard. He cannot resist the ripe, red fruit. Soon his troubles begin.
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PREMIERE PLAY ADAPTATION OF BOOK 2 IN THE APPLE TREE SERIES
The Night Sky Lined with Silver
QUADRUPLE AWARD-WINNING TEAM:
Author Yvonne David,
Playwright Ellen W. Kaplan
Director Nichole Raphael
Set Designer Robert Sauber
In the winter of 1938, a severe snowstorm blankets the hamlet of Mountaindale in the Catskills and fierce winds snap branches from the two-hundred-year-old tree like little twigs. Doc Adam Bieman’s twelve-year-old son, Eliot, is a boy who hates to take chances. However, when the hometown war hero and his dog go missing, it is up to Eliot to find them before it is too late.
The play is a gripping account of searching for lost loved ones. Capturing the essence of Hanukkah: a story of miracles and survival, it also shows how to look for the light in a dark situation. And what Doc Bieman finds will shock everyone to the core.
