The Fever Chart

by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Elena Araoz
November 18th - December 19th

Talk in the Box Events All free with price of admission to The Fever Chart, except Dec. 8th performance of Palestine.

Thu 11/18 Post-Show TALKBACK
Richard Colbath-Hess – LICSW, adjunct faculty, College of Public & Community Services, UMass, Boston; co-founder, Al-Rowwad, USA	Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. – Research Fellow & Lecturer, MIT Program in Art, Culture & Technology

Fri 11/19 Post-Show TALKBACK
Ophir Pines Paz, Harvard Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, former Israeli Minister of Culture

Sat 11/20 Pre-Show SYMPOSIUM, Intifada Generation: Growing up in a War Zone
Noam Shuster - Senior, Brandeis university, on "Slifka Co-Existence" scholarship that brings Palestinians and Israelis to Brandeis to study together.	Samer Jaber - Brandeis MA candidate, International Development. Helped established the first non-violent action group in Bethlehem supported by the Israeli 'peace block'.

Sat 11/20 Post-Show SUBTEXT: Your Stories, Real or Imagined
SubText is the newest "Talk in the Box" program: Audience storytelling inspired by the production. Listen to and share your own stories inspired by The Fever Chart. When has a personal encounter illuminated or changed your understanding of politics? Intimate stories – perhaps having to do with the Middle East, perhaps further afield.

Sun 11/21 Post-Show SUNDAY SOIREE
Press Opening - Post-show reception with the cast.

Sat 11/27 Pre-Show SYMPOSIUM (7pm performance), Media Coverage: How is the story being told?
Shoshona Madmoni-Gerber - A reporter in Israel, now Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media at Suffolk University. Author of Isaeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair. Charles Radin - News Director, Brandeis University, former Boston Globe Middle East correspondent.	Amahl Bishara - Documentary film maker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University. Conducted ethnographic research on media in Israel and the West Bank.

Sun 11/28 Post-Show TALKBACK
Brian Corr - Director, Cambridge Peace Commission.	Dr. Mohammed Bakir Alwan – Iraqi-born scholar teacher, translator, folklorist, poet, and literary critic; Lecturer in Arabic, Tufts University.

Wed 12/1 Post-Show TALKBACK
Oded Na’aman - PhD candidate in Philosophy, Harvard University; served in the Israeli Defense Forces; became a member of Breaking the Silence - Israeli soldiers who have refused to serve in the occupied territories.	Salma Abu Ayyash - Palestinian born in Jordan; a founder and curator of the Palestinian arts and culture organization Tawassul and the Boston Palestine Film Festival; producer and host of "This Week in Palestine” on WZBC 90.3.

Thu 12/2 Post-Show: ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES
Join the director and cast for a post-performance conversation

Fri 12/3 Post-Show TALKBACK
Harvey Cox – Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University

Sat 12/4 Pre-Show SYMPOSIUM, Peace in Jerusalem: Three religions trying to approach peace
The Rev. Walter Cuenin - Catholic clergy at Brandeis University. Other participants TBA.	Rabbi Victor Reinstein – Rabbi and founder of the Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue, Jamaica Plain. Committed to interfaith dialogue, particularly involved in building bridges between Jews and Muslims.

Sun 12/5 Post-Show TALKBACK
Nidal Al-Azraq - Born and raised in Aida Palestinian Refugee Camp, Bethlehem; documentary film maker.	Lawrence Lowenthal - Former director, American Jewish Committee, New England Region; Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies, Northeastern University.

Wed 12/8 Palestine, A Special Benefit Performance
A solo-show by Najla Said, a member of The Fever Chart cast and daughter of the eminent Edward Said. Read full information on Palestine

Thu 12/9 Post-Show CENTRAL SALON
Conversation with Central Square Theater leadership about the theater, with wine and cheese.

Sat 12/11 7PM Pre-Show SYMPOSIUM, The Transformative Potential of Theater & Art: How can the arts contribute to peacemaking?
Al Miller - Founder of The Theater Project, Brunswick, Maine; former teacher/ administrator in Lebanon. Maura Clark - Has worked in Jordon and Egypt with teachers, using theater for civic engagement.	Deborah Nathan - Founder & Executive Director, Artsbridge, a program that uses art to bridge the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Sun 12/12 Post-Show TALKBACK
Jean Entine - Jewish Voice for Peace.	John Roberts – Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Cambridge Bethlehem People to People Project, former Executive Director of ACLU Massachusetts.

Wed 12/15 Post-Show TALKBACK
Marty Federman - Co chair, American Jews for a Just Peace, Boston

Thu 12/16 Post-Show SCHOLAR SOCIAL
Robert J. Lifton - Distinguished Professor Emeritus, City University of New York; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance; co-author of Crimes of War: Iraq.

Sat 12/18 7PM Pre-Show SYMPOSIUM, Reframing the Conversation: How can we have and sustain difficult conversations?
Alice Rothchild, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish & Palestinian Trauma & Resilience.	Abby Yanow - President of Boston Facilitators Roundtable, management consultant, facilitator of public dialogues, dual citizen US-Israel

Sun 12/19 Post-Show TALKBACK
Steven Brion Meisels – Director, Pece First Institute; Peace Action board member; founding member, Peaceable Schools & Communities Group; West Bank, civic education & peacemaking.	Linda Brion Meisels – Professor, Education & Psychology, Lesley University, founding member, Peaceable Schools & Communities Group; West Bank, civic education and peacemaking.