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July 12, 2019

Smash the Glass : A Celebration of Women

Written by Yvonne Fein and directed by Charles Slucki (z”l) Commissioned by the Jewish Museum of Australia in conjunction with the National Council of Jewish Women […]
July 12, 2019

On Edge

On Edge — a drama in three acts by Yvonne Fein : Premier production of Saltpillar Theatre for the Jewish Arts Festival, Phoenix Theatre 1988 Cast: […]
July 8, 2019

Tickets on Myself — Fringe Festival (2019)

Coming soon — Join me and a stellar line-up of diversity! Tickets on Myself is a production about “the experience of the other” but also an […]
July 8, 2019

Waiting

She is waiting for the Word to crash upon creation, making ancient stars flare in skies this night. She is waiting for God to confess his […]
July 8, 2019

Unholy Ruin

This is what they say to her when she staggers into Emergency: ‘There are some things you need to know before it’s safe for you to […]
July 8, 2019

Mad Pride — Melbourne Comedy Festival, April 2019

For those of us who live with madness of every kind and make solutions to the problems through comedy, satire and brutal honesty. This was the […]
July 8, 2019

Raw Comedy at the Espy January 2019

Event of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival National Open Mic Comedy Competition. First outing of my new set. Amazing response!!!
July 8, 2019

Inclusive Performance Workshop

Led by Kath Duncan, (Research Associate/Chairperson, ARC research project, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne), this was a challenging, illuminating and inspiring experience. My imagination […]
July 8, 2019

The Comedy Lab

The Comedy Lab: Stand Up for Disability Rights, in conjunction with the University Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts. Led by Mary Luckhurst ( Associate […]
July 8, 2019

Passionate Tongues

A reading of my piece entitled ‘Just Words’ for Passionate Tongues held at the East Brunswick Hotel, Melbourne. This is an evening of spoken word held […]
July 8, 2019

Shakespeare’s Version

To purloin a sentence from Shakespeare’s Shylock, ‘I am a Jew.’ As a feminist, I have been known to proclaim, ‘I am a Jew in a […]
July 8, 2019

False Tzniut: Using Modesty as a Gag

“Jewish women,” writes Shira Schmidt (AJN 9/6/2000 Finding Hannah’s Voice) “do not pray like Jewish men.” With that truism begins her contentious article that women should […]
July 8, 2019

Against Irving

A long time ago, when it was still possible to tell the difference – intellectually and politically – between the lunatic extremes of the left and […]
July 8, 2019

Wⱥondering Jew

A legendary man said to have been condemned by Christ to wander the earth until the Second Coming. Or A person who never settles down. Or […]
July 8, 2019

Taunting the Abyss

Published by Hippocampus Magazine, November 2017https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/11/taunting-the-abyss-by-y-l-fein/ Almost 30 years ago, Mary-Claire King located the region on the genome that became known as the BRCA1 gene. Later […]
July 5, 2019

Waiting

I am waiting for the Word to crash upon creation, making ancient stars flare in skies this night. I am waiting for God to confess his […]
July 5, 2019

Bedtime Story

She took Hitler to bed. It was hard-going. It took her a month to read the 221 pages. It took him a month to burn 8000 […]
July 5, 2019

Numbers D’varim

The mathematics of language has always enthralled me, the way it calculates. But the language of mathematics has always eluded me. Still there are those — […]
July 5, 2019

’tis better to…

There are two beginnings to this tale but perhaps I should allow Marc Chagall and Isaac Bashevis Singer first words. Fabulists of phrase and image, surely […]
July 5, 2019

The Usual

At eighteen, armed with a driver’s license, I found an entirely new way of indulging my old love of shortcuts. Traffic-light-evading routes, corner-cutting byways along the […]