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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m
Jennifer Maisel
Eight Nights follows Holocaust survivor Rebecca Blum and her family as they grow and evolve as Americans over the course of eight decades. In their Lower East Side apartment, Rebecca, her father, future husband, daughter and more celebrate each night of Chanukah: the festival of lights.
Eight Nights follows Holocaust survivor Rebecca Blum and her family as they grow and evolve as Americans over the course of eight decades. In their Lower East Side apartment, Rebecca, her father, future husband, daughter and more celebrate each night of Chanukah: the festival of lights. They discuss marriage, friendship, parenthood, immigration and, most touchingly, memory. With each passing year, Rebecca’s continued perseverance inspires her family, ensuring her legacy stretches well beyond the walls of her apartment.
The world premiere of Eight Nights was produced by Antaeus Theatre in Glendale, California in October 2019.
REBECCA BLUM – A refugee. White-presenting. Jewish. Ages nineteen to thirties in Nights 1–3. Thin at nineteen. Actress also plays Amy (fourteen, twenties, thirties) in Nights 4–6, Nina (nineteen, thirties) in Nights 7–8, and Anna in Night 8.ERICH BLUM – Rebecca’s father. White-presenting. Jewish. Forties to sixties. Actor also plays Joram (forty) in Night 8.ANNA BLUM – Rebecca’s mother. No longer alive. White-presenting. Jewish. Actress also plays Rebecca (forty-eight to eighties) in Nights 4–8.AARON – Rebecca’s husband. White-presenting. Jewish. Twenty-five to fifties.BENJAMIN – African American. Forties to sixties. Actor also plays Matt in Night 6.ARLENE – African American. Thirty-eight to fifty-two. Actress also plays Lacey (twenties) in Night 7.STEVEN – Half Japanese, half white. Born and raised in the US. Twenties. Actor also plays Inge in Night 6.
A Lower East Side apartment. December 15, 1949 to December 31, 2016.
“Eight Nights will make you laugh, make you cry, make you think.” – Stage Scene LA
“This is very much a story about family that sustains us, drives us to survive, to love and even to pay forward our blessings with sympathy, empathy and generosity. It’s also about the complicated process of healing. It may not be possible to keep dry eyes to the end.” – Encore Michigan“[Rebecca’s] journey of recovery and renewal offers a deeply personal window into the refugee experience and its generational repercussions in Jennifer Maisel’s insightful and moving new play.” – Los Angeles Times“Eight Nights will make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, make you feel, make you stand up and cheer.” – Stage Scene LA
Conversations from the Alcove – Lucille Lortel Theatre with Jennifer Maisel
Eight Nights at the Detroit Public Theatre – One Detroit Featurette
Known for her thought-provoking dramas about the transcendency of human connection and identity, Jennifer Maisel has written plays that have been produced nationally and internationally. The Last Seder premiered off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey after producti ...