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| Carolyn Cox, Sara Schweid and Alice Bridgforth
in "From Door to Door" (Joan Golston)
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Art Feinglass relocated to Seattle from New York about four
years ago. With a thriving theater company in New York, Mostly Murder, he
continues to be bi-coastal, as they say. Mostly Murder is a travelling theater
company that stages corporate events, fundraisers, and team building events. Art
says, “We present murder mysteries that audiences have to solve and get prizes
for solving. The company’s been going for 22 years and now I run it from
Seattle. I write the scripts and do the casting from Seattle and then people do
it in New York.
“Four years ago I moved to Seattle to be near my grandkids
and founded Seattle Jewish Theater Company. I run it pretty much the way I run
the mystery company. We go from location to location. We bring the cast and
whole play to different venues around the Seattle area.”
SJTC has been to synagogues throughout the Greater Seattle
area and will shortly be going as far south as Tacoma and as far north as
Woodinville. Their latest presentation was a lovely, three person play called From Door to Door by James Sherman. The
title is a pun on a Hebrew phrase, “l'dor v'dor” or from generation to
generation. The characters are a grandmother, mother and daughter over a 64
year span.
Actors Alice Bridgforth, Carolyn (Puddin) Cox and Sara
Schweid gave touching performances that detailed growing differences over the
years of women’s places in the home and religious life of the Jewish community.
The play takes place in Chicago and suburbs, where Sherman is from. The strong
dialogue deftly sketches the cultural mores of each generation and the bond of
the family.