Sea Turtles - The Play

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Sea Turtles: On a San Francisco stage, three generations of Jewish-French-Tunisian women are looking for a beach.

In July 2012, François Hollande, President of the French Republic, made long overdue apologies for the deportation of French Jews, by the French authorities, to Nazi extermination camps in 1942. In Sea Turtles, French-born author and director David Valayre builds on the tribulations of his mother, grandmother and aunts, Berber Jews from the mountains of North Africa, who emigrated from Tunis to Paris at the worst possible time: 1938. “They avoided deportation by escaping occupied Paris and clandestinely returning to Tunisia with passports bearing Arab names ‘officially forged’ by the Tunisian consulate,” says Valayre. Sea Turtles is about the wanderings of such women, both through time and space and through their own feelings — daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers, shuttling between Tunis and Paris over the second half of the Twentieth Century. “Sea Turtles is a story of love given and love denied” says Valayre, “and, fortunately, it is a comedy.”

The women of Sea Turtles are looking for a beach they lost or never knew “just as we 18-year olds were looking for a beach under the cobblestones of chaotic 1968 Paris,” says Valayre. They are searching for their own identity. “Call your brothers by their French names,” says one of the characters, “David, Salomon, those are your father’s choices. We’re in France now; we don’t want to stand out. From now on, it’s Clovis and Charlemagne.”

Sea Turtles, written and directed by Roland David Valayre, interpreted by Anna Andersen, Cheryl Cleary, Lisa Drostova, Allison Fenner, Joanne Grimm, Raymonde McCoy and Andrea Satin.
November 2-11, 2012 at the Southside Theatre, Fort Mason Center, Bldg D, San Francisco
Ticket Prices: $35 - $20; group rates upon request
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/270599
Preview trailer of the 2011 production: http://bit.ly/SeaTurtlesVideo
More information at http://generationtheatre.com or
by phone (415) 800-4464

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