Play Reading: "Beshert: Or The Jewish Dating Cycle"

From the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County:

The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County will present a staged reading of the play "Beshert: Or the Jewish Dating Cycle" by Freehold native, educator Dr. David Crespy on July 12, beginning at 7 p.m.

Crespy is professor of playwriting, acting,and dramatic literature and the founder and co-director of the Writing for Performance program for the University of Missouri Department of Theater.

His plays have been developed and produced at theaters across the Unites States. Dr. Crespy is the author of the books "The-Off-Off Broadway Explosion" (Back Stage Books, 2003) with a foreword by Edward Albee, and "Richard Barr: The Playwrights' Producer (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013), also with a  foreword and afterword by Edward Albee.

Much of Crespy's play is autobiographical and deals with the  search for "kosher love."  It follows the  adventures of Nadya Finkelstein, a single mother and eccentric professor at the University of Northern Southeast Missouri  as she struggles through the strange looking-glass world of dating over the age of 35.

In a world turned topsy-turvy with talking furniture, crazy suitors, flamboyant and cinematic guilt trips, and vaguely threatening vegetarians, Nadya discovers the meaning of true love as she stalks that elusive prey - the nice Jewish guy!