Oh hey hello and hi there, happy Sunday or indeed whatever day out of the seven it is

as you're listening. Mickey here with this week's Sunday chops and this week I am chatting

to two women. Two, I know! Kayla Feldman and Amy Rosenville. Kayla is directing the arc,

a trilogy of brand new short plays of which Amy's birth is won, which is joined by marriage written

by Alexis Seigman and death penned by Ryan Craig. It is hatches, matches and dispatches through a

Jewish lens, with the arc as a whole shining the contemporary light on the cycle of Jewish life

and what it means to live as a Jew in 2023. The arc premieres at Soho Theatre on Tuesday the

15th of August and runs until Saturday the 26th of August, more details and indeed tickets can be

hard at Soho Theatre.com. In the second half of this chops, Amy will tell you a bit more about her

plate birth, what inspired it, and the sometimes the pre-nature of faith. But I kicked off chatting with

Kayla about the specific rituals in universal experiences where the arc can win hearts and change

minds and the challenges of directing three plays at once. Kayla, you're directing three plays at once.

How do you bend your head around that? Oh, that's a very good question. I guess I'm sort of

treating this as three players that one show that each player is sort of snippet of life within

one show. There are plenty of shows that do that but are sort of fragments in a way. So in terms of

three plays at once or three scripts at once, I'm just seeing this as it's one show. These are sort of

three acts of that one show and that's how I try to view it. The way that it's been most different,

I think, from projects that I've done before, is dealing with three writers. I prefer working

really closely with writers on the development of the scripts and making sure that I'm telling the

story they intended when they wrote it. So I think that's been the biggest difference is keeping in

mind three different writers with three different priorities, three different ways of working.

But it's also been really nice to be able to work with three of them most

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