Berlin, Jerusalem and the Moon

A Traveling Jewish Theater

1985

Edie:

You got it. I can’t be a woman and I can’t be a Jew. And I can’t be either, because I can’t be both. So, you know what I’m gonna be? I am gonna be nothing.

Else:

Oh, I see, you call all of that anger and fear “nothing.”

Edie:

You are really upsetting me.

Else:

Of course I am upsetting you. Now, you listen to me. I too began my life silenced…

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