Montreal actor plays ‘modern Zionist’ in Bad Jews [Video]

MONTREAL – Sarah Segal-Lazar is enjoying what she calls “a very Jewish spring.”

It began on March 17 and 18, the dates she performed in When Memories Have Us, a documentary theatre piece mounted specially for the teens participating in this year’s March of the Living.

Presented by the Bronfman Jewish Education Centre, which aims to develop Jewish identity and continuity, it cycled a theatre full of young audience members, divided into small groups, through a sequence of spaces in the Segal Centre – namely the CinemaSpace, the lab, the kitchen and the dressing room.

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All of these areas had been transformed into intimate venues where Segal-Lazar and three others played audio recordings of Holocaust survivors’ stories and delivered related monologues, repeating them eight times over the course of each night.

“Mine was the music space where they heard a recording about the survivor who was forced to play …