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The Resettlement of Isaac is a companion playscript and sequel to the historical fiction Isaac based on the true, incredible story of Isaac Gochman, a 17-year old from Rovno, Poland, who, in one horrific night, survives a Nazi massacre of his entire family along with 20,000 other Jews. Thrust alone into the forest and the wilderness of war, Isaac finds the courage to fight back as a Russian partisan blowing up Nazi trains, and finds the passion to fall deeply in love with Anya, a Russian partisan nurse-in love for the first time in his young life. It is a tragic love that transcends religious differences. Many years later in New York, the elderly Isaac is still haunted by the memory of his first love. His only friend, a young German-American woman, is tormented herself by doubts about her father's role as a German soldier during the war. Deeply affected by Isaac's past, she becomes the loving caretaker of his memories after he is gone. The play confirms what Faulkner once wrote, ""The past is never dead, it's not even past.""

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I just finished reading a novel that I would recommend to anyone: ISAAC by Robert Karmon. I read the novel as part of the research for a double role that I am working on for the next few weeks. Robert Karmon is also a playwright and he adapted his novel to the stage play The Resettlement of Isaac in which I will play two of the lead roles. We will perform it at the third annual Jewish Film Festival in Southampton on August 21st, directed by Robert Kalfin (founder New York's Chelsea Theatre Center, winner of five Tony Awards, four Tony nominations and 21 Obie Awards). I am truly astonished by Karmon's book. In Dutch we have an expression that says: This book reads like a train . And it means that you can't put it down once you start reading. It is exactly what happened to me. -ANNEMARIE HAGENAARS double role in stage adaptation of The Resettlement of Isaac (https: //annemariehagenaars.nl/2017/08/02/double-role-in-stage-adaptation-of-novel-isaac-by-robert-karmon/) In directing the first staged reading of this play, I saw how deeply the actors and audience were moved and affected by it's love story. From the first time I read the script, I, too, was profoundly touched by the way this drama connects the haunting ghosts of a Holocaust event with the redemption of a past love re-enacted in the present. It is a passionate, poignant drama that spans the years between generations and cultures, spiritually binding the young Isaac and the elderly Isaac to the Russian woman who loved him in the past, and the contemporary German-American woman who finds herself loving him now. It is a truly magical and transcendent theater work. -Robert Kalfin

I just finished reading a novel that I would recommend to anyone: ISAAC by Robert Karmon. I read the novel as part of the research for a double role that I am working on for the next few weeks. Robert Karmon is also a playwright and he adapted his novel to the stage play ""The Resettlement of Isaac"" in which I will play two of the lead roles. We will perform it at the third annual Jewish Film Festival in Southampton on August 21st, directed by Robert Kalfin (founder New York's Chelsea Theatre Center, winner of five Tony Awards, four Tony nominations and 21 Obie Awards). I am truly astonished by Karmon's book. In Dutch we have an expression that says: ""This book reads like a train"". And it means that you can't put it down once you start reading. It is exactly what happened to me. -ANNEMARIE HAGENAARS double role in stage adaptation of The Resettlement of Isaac (https: //annemariehagenaars.nl/2017/08/02/double-role-in-stage-adaptation-of-novel-isaac-by-robert-karmon/) In directing the first staged reading of this play, I saw how deeply the actors and audience were moved and affected by it's love story. From the first time I read the script, I, too, was profoundly touched by the way this drama connects the haunting ghosts of a Holocaust event with the redemption of a past love re-enacted in the present. It is a passionate, poignant drama that spans the years between generations and cultures, spiritually binding the young Isaac and the elderly Isaac to the Russian woman who loved him in the past, and the contemporary German-American woman who finds herself loving him now. It is a truly magical and transcendent theater work. -Robert Kalfin

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Robert Karmon is an award winning playwright, published poet, short story writer and published screenwriter, who has worked on screenplays for Columbia pictures, CBS and Eddie Murphy Production. He was a member of Playwrights Horizon and Edward Albee's Playwrights Unit. His plays have been staged at Brown University, New York's Playwrights Horizons, where both his plays, ""Demons"" and ""The Conditioning of Charlie One,"" were performed. His play, ""The Waiting Room..."" about the tragic life of 20th Century physicist, Paul Ehrenfest, was chosen by Urban Stages theatre for their ""New Works for a New Season"" and was later staged at The Workshop Theatre Company as part of their ""Plays in Progress"" program. His play ""Caliban and Miranda,"" won Atlanta's Clayton State Theatre International Playwriting award. He has seen his plays staged at La Mama's Extension Theatre, and Long Island's Arena Players and in many regional theatres around the country. As a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, he has taught at Temple University, Queens College, Hunter college, and is currently Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College in Garden City, Long Island. His book, Isaac, that THE RESETTLEMENT OF ISAAC is based off of, was published by Pleasure Boat Studio in . He is married with two daughters and three grandchildren. Robert Zangwill Kalfin was an American stage director and producer who has worked on and off Broadway and at regional theaters throughout the country. He was a former artistic director of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the founder/artistic director of The Chelsea Theater Center. ""For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound."" -NYT

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