Who could blame The Shofar for pirating the title of Luigi Pirandello’s play, “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” when the shul is planning a playreading performance for early spring, and the author of the play is looking for — yes — six characters?  The play chosen is “We Call It Whiskey,”  a one-act comedy by shul member Chuck Simon, who will cast and direct the work for a hybrid presentation — live at the shul and also on Zoom so that friends and family from afar can enjoy the show.

Note: this is a playREADING, a script-in-hand presentation, meaning no memorization of lines. (Wha-hoo!) No experience required, either, Chuck says — just the fun of voicing the characters and regaling the audience with fun and laughs.

Here’s the cast of characters:

  • Rabbi Miller, a meek, somewhat withdrawn middle-aged man
  • Julie, an aggressive, 20-something woman of Scottish descent, with visions of grandeur
  • Israeli and American ambassadors, parts can be read by men or women
  • A Scottish ambassador, to be read by a man
  • The U.S. ambassador’s aide.

Interested? Here’s how you can release your inner thespian and participate: Contact Chuck Simon at cedwardsimon@gmail.com to discuss your availability for probably two rehearsals and to schedule an audition. Once the cast is chosen, rehearsal and performance dates will be set. So — this time appropriating from none other than The Bard himself — the play’s the thing wherein we’ll kvetch the conscience of the king, should one happen by and, for sure, zing the funny bones of all assembled.