Joanna
30s-40s, ,
Jewish
Female
Role is meant to be played by the playwright. In certain specific cases, other performance arrangements may be considered with the collaboration of the playwright.
CONVERSA by
Young Joanna knows all the Jewish prayers... and how they’re really about Jesus. That’s because her mother, who was once studying to become a rabbi, converted to evangelicalism through Jews for Jesus many years ago. With her mother's help, Joanna learns all the tricks of Christian missions, eventually becoming a missionary herself. But then something ancient draws her away, to traditions she never learned...
Young Joanna knows all the Jewish prayers... and how they’re really about Jesus. That’s because her mother, who was once studying to become a rabbi, converted to evangelicalism through Jews for Jesus many years ago. With her mother's help, Joanna learns all the tricks of Christian missions, eventually becoming a missionary herself. But then something ancient draws her away, to traditions she never learned and dark histories she never studied. And to a tiny village where, centuries ago, her father’s father’s father made a very different choice.
CONVERSA is a hopeful, epic solo show about identity, migration, and change, and how the worst parts of religion keep us from the best parts – the parts that help all of us survive persecution and find our way home.
CONVERSA is a hopeful, epic solo show about identity, migration, and change, and how the worst parts of religion keep us from the best parts – the parts that help all of us survive persecution and find our way home.