Ed Asner, Kate Burton to read 'The Soap Myth' in New Bedford for Holocaust Remembrance Day - SouthCoastToday.com

Seven-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner and Emmy Award and Tony Award nominee Kate Burton will star in a staged reading of Jeff Cohen’s play "The Soap Myth" at Zeiterion Performing Arts Center Saturday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m.

The readings, directed by Pam Berlin, will also feature Ned Eisenberg and Blair Baker, and serve as a tribute to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also on Jan. 27.

This performance is the only New England appearance on a seven-venue East Coast tour, and is presented in association with Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford. Tickets are $18 and $36, and can be purchased by calling (508) 994-2900, or visiting zeiterion.org or the 684 Purchase St., New Bedford, box office.

Asner, 88, beloved for the character of Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and a spinoff, along with the 2009 Pixar blockbuster "Up," will perform the role of Holocaust survivor Milton Saltzman. Burton, adored for her performance as Ellis Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy,” will perform the roles of Holocaust scholar Esther Feinman and Holocaust denier Brenda Goodsen.

"The Soap Myth" takes place more than a half-century after the end of World War II when a young journalist sets out to write an article about a Holocaust survivor and his crusade regarding the Nazi atrocity of soap. The play dramatically explores how a person survives and questions who has the right to write history — those who have lived it and remember, those who study and protect it, or those who would seek to distort and desecrate its existence.

"The Soap Myth" was originally produced off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theater in 2012 by the National Jewish Theater Foundation. A film of that production was broadcast nationally on PBS and is in the permanent collection of Britain’s Digital Theatre.

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