Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

“Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story”
written by Hannah Moscovitch, Ben Caplan, and Christian Barry & directed by Christian Barry

About the Production

2b theatre company, a local Halifax company, joins forces with 2 young Jewish adults living in Halifax: klezmer-folk sensation Ben Caplan and Dora Award-winning local playwright Hannah Moscovitch to tell a Canadian Jewish refugee story that hits close to home.

This genre-bending music-theatre hybrid is inspired by the real-life story of Moscovitch’s great-grandparents, both Romanian Jews, immigrating to Canada in the early twentieth century. Ben Caplan plays the mysterious emcee in this examination of the refugee experience, viewed through the historical lens of Jewish immigrants a hundred years ago. And it’s also a love story. The show will take the form of a humourously dark folktale woven together with a high-energy concert.

For this night only of the show’s run, there will be a talk-back after the production featuring the show’s producers and a local Jewish newcomer, comparing and contrasting the Jewish immigration experiences of past and present. 

Ticketing Details

Early bird tickets are $25 and will be available until April 1st, at which point General Admission tickets will be $30. The AJC has arranged a 20% group ticket discount on top of these prices for the night of May 11th, available by promo code only. Please email nrosenfeld@theajc.ns.ca to obtain this code.

Once you have this code, tickets can be purchased online at: http://www.tickethalifax.com/events/42156692/old-stock-a-refugee-love-story

Underwaged tickets are available to anyone with limited disposable income, including (but not limited to) students, arts workers, and seniors on fixed incomes.