The Theater and Theology Company presents

The Blessing of a Broken Heart

by Todd Salovey, based on the book by Sherri Mandell

In cooperation with The Koby Mandell Foundation

Sherri Mandell wrote a heartrending and hope-giving book in the year after her 13-year-old son’s brutal murder in a cave during the Second Intifada. Todd Salovey's play brings that year searingly to life. Theater and Theology’s production adds an ensemble of four skilled performers who limn the experience and emotions of the character of Sherri by creating scenes and songs, and even set pieces and obstacles, with their voices and bodies in a powerful augmentation of the text. Audiences will find themselves deeply invested in Sherri’s fight to create meaning from tragedy.

More information about the Theater and Theology Company and the play here

With Rebecca Sykes as Sherri Mandell

and Dena Davies, Gillian Kay, Shifra Levy, and Howard Metz i the ensemble

Stage management and design assistance by Shari Greenspan

Production and lighting design by John Krug

Original composition by Shifra Levy

Production assistance by Sheva Lipkind

Direction by Yael Valier