March 3, 2023 Garden City, NY  

Nassau Community College Spring 2023 Productions
Food for Fish March 24 - April 2
Kindertransport March 23 - April 2

A portion of proceeds to benefit local and international charities

 Food for Fish
Playwright Adam Szymkowicz

A portion of the proceeds from Food for Fish will be donated to the Nest, NCC’s on-campus food bank and Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank

 WHO:  The Theatre and Dance Department at Nassau Community College

WHAT:  A story of grief, unrequited loved, gender identity and a novel in a bottle.

“Food for Fish is a wild ride through the imagination of a tortured artist exploring: Love, grief, gender identity, self-worth, and existential turmoil. Who am I? What do I really want? Where can I find love? What happens when I lose love? What is the point of it all? Am I telling my own story in life, or is someone else telling it for me? I find those questions incredibly, brutally human. 

This play uses humor, abstraction, darkness, and absurdity to grapple with these questions. The intention of this play is not to be realistic (although there may be moments that feel very natural), but rather to live in the fluidity of emotional truth. Have you ever been overwhelmed by a feeling? Maybe love, jealousy, disgust, betrayal, infatuation, etc., but come to understand that the feeling inside doesn’t match the actual circumstances being played out in real life? In Food for Fish our aim is to explore the abstract representation of these big feelings, not the reality of the circumstances.”  -- Director, Michael Mullen 

WHEN: 
March 24, 26, 28, 30; April 1
All shows 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees 2:00 p.m.
Streaming show on Sunday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m.

General Admission Tickets:  $10.00
NCC Students:  Free with valid ID
Discount Tickets:  $8.00 Veterans, Alumni, NCC Employees, Seniors 60+
All Students - any age:  $10.00
Online Streaming Pass:  4/2/23 performance:  $10.00

WHERE:  Nassau Community College
Mainstage Theater - Building W
Garden City, NY 11530

Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, Servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection (www.dramatists.com).

Kindertransport

A portion of the proceeds from Kindertransport will be donated to the NCC Ukranian Scholarship and the Holy Family Ukranian Catholic Church for the Orphan Center in Lviv, Ukraine

WHO:  Nassau Community College Theatre and Dance Department

WHAT:  Kindertransport, by Diane Samuels, takes place simultaneously in 1939, as a nine-year old German Jewish girl named Eva is sent to England on the Kindertransport to be safe from Nazi oppression, and in 1974 England, when Evelyn’s daughter Faith is preparing to leave home.  Faith finds old letters and photos in the attic which reveals a secret her mother has kept hidden since she was a teenager.

“There was a poster that said, “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” War not only affect those who are shot and killed. The impact of living through a war can affect people that survived the war, and their children, for generations. This play tells the story of a Jewish girl who was sent away to safety before her parents were taken to the Death Camps.

The Kindertransport saga began in 1938 in Nazi-controlled Germany on the night of November 9-10, a night which became known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," when 30,000 Jewish males were rounded up, arrested, and deported to concentration camps. More than a thousand synagogues and Jewish owned businesses across Germany and Austria were looted and burned.  Immediately after this event, an urgent appeal went out to the nations of the world to open their doors to Germany's Jewish children, in order to save them from the imminent threat of deportation to the Death Camps. Beginning on December 2, 1938, trains left Germany filled with Jewish children ages nine months to seventeen years old. Nine months later, on September 3, 1939, war was declared and the railroads were shut down. Nearly 10,000 Jewish children were sent to England and distributed among private foster families, orphanages, hostels and farms throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Everyone thought that this separation would only last a few months, but 90% of the parents perished in the Death Camps and the children never saw their parents again.” -- Director, Abbe Gail Gross

WHEN:  March 23, 25, 29, 31; April 2
All shows 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:  Nassau Community College
Mainstage Theater - Building W
Garden City, NY 11530

General Admission Tickets:  $10.00
NCC Students:  Free with valid ID
Discount Tickets:  $8.00 Veterans, Alumni, NCC Employees, Seniors 60+
All Students - any age:  $10.00

Performed by Special Arrangement with Susan Schulman, A Literary Agency, 454 W. 44th Street, NY, NY 10036.

NCC Ticket Box Office:  516-572-7676 M-F 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Media Contact:  Lindsey Angioletti | lindsey.angioletti@ncc.edu | C:  (516) 320-0695

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About Nassau Community College

Nassau Community College, a campus of the State University of New York, provides a comprehensive public college experience designed to transform lives through higher education. Serving 14,000 full-time, part-time and continuing education students, NCC offers more than 80 programs that lead to the associate’s degree or certificate. Through on-campus and online offerings, the College educates local and international students, and boasts 168,000 alumni. Situated on 225 acres in Garden City, Long Island, the college grounds reside in historic Nassau County, one of the most desirable locations to live in the United States and an epicenter for business and careers. Since 1959, NCC has earned a nationwide reputation for academic excellence, affordability, and ease of transferability to four-year schools.