Your ticket to this screening includes both the feature Me To Play and the short film Zaida which will play before it! Two professional actors with Parkinson's disease put up an Off-Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's comic masterpiece "Endgame," which Beckett wrote after his mother passed away from the disease. When the body gives way, all that's left is soul. Screens with short film Zaida.

Henri Parens escaped from the Holocaust at the age of 12, and went on to become a globally recognized psychoanalyst, dedicating his life's work to the prevention of prejudice. With her documentary Zaida, his granddaughter celebrates her grandfather's legacy, and pleads with her own generation to continue his life's work.

Zaida

Dr. Henri Parens is a Holocaust survivor and so much more. 'Zaida' celebrates his survival, and his dedication to creating a better world than the one that raised him.

More than a million Americans are afflicted with Parkinson's disease. It's a degenerative disorder for which there is no cure that affects movement, balance, and voice -- all the essential tools for an actor's craft. But Dan Moran and Chris Jones are two actors who face their Parkinson's disease by stepping onto an Off-Broadway stage in New York to perform Samuel Beckett's vaudevillian tragic-comic masterpiece, "Endgame." Me To Play is about living with Parkinson's, life as an actor, and finding meaning in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," which he wrote as a metaphor for facing the disease. It reveals the process Dan and Chris undertake to take on a monumentally difficult script in the face of their own failing health and diminishing skills -- challenging their own determination, as well as that of their collaborators, families, doctors, and caregivers to find the artistry necessary to perform Beckett at the highest level. No one more aptly than Beckett captures the dark hilarity and desperate optimism of the human spirit in the face of catastrophe -- except perhaps Dan and Chris.

Me To Play

Two professional actors with Parkinson's disease put up an Off-Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's comic masterpiece "Endgame," which Beckett wrote after his mother passed away from the disease. When the body gives way, all that's left is soul.

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