“ENOUGH ABOUT ME… LET’S TALK ABOUT JEW!”

“ENOUGH ABOUT ME… LET’S TALK ABOUT JEW!”
AUSTRALIAN COMIC TOUR DE FORCE STARRING JEREMIE BRACKA
TO HAVE US PREMIERE AT NY FRINGE FESTIVAL

A Hit at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival,
One-Man Laugh Riot to be Presented at The Players Theater Aug. 18 – 24, 2007

“Brilliant mimicry, wonderful caricatures. A show to delight Jew and ‘Goy’ alike!
TheGroggySquirrel.com

The New York International Fringe Festival, known for its cutting edge productions, is bringing the brilliant “down under” comedian/writer/actor Jeremie Bracka and his critically acclaimed one-man comedy tour de force, Enough About Me…. Let’s Talk About Jew!, to this year’s festival in the Big Apple. The New York Fringe production, presented by Noah Goldman and Fantasy Sports & Entertainment, Inc. in association with Fiona Choi, will be presented at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, from August 18 through August 24, 2007.
The performance schedule is as follows:



The running time of the show is 65 minutes. Tickets are $15 and may be obtained at www.FringeNYC.com/ or call in New York (212) 279-4488/outside NYC: 1-888-FringeNYC.
From Borscht Belt to Beer, Knishes to Kangaroo, comedic self-deprecation is the other Jewish remedy to all ailments after chicken soup…. Even Down Under! Enough About Me…. Let’s Talk About Jew! Portrays the uniqueness of Australian Jewish immigrant experiences through an ‘all you can eat’ buffet of Jewish personas based on persecution complexes, guilt and neuroses.


Enough About Me….. Let’s Talk About Jew! Is an original one-man Australian cultural comedy created and performed by Jeremie Bracka which was an SRO success at the recent Melbourne Comedy Festival. It celebrates, satirizes and parodies the unique Australian émigré culture through farce, vaudeville cabaret and monologue. Spanning three generations and four distinct ethnicities – Polish, Egyptian, Israeli and Hungarian – Enough About Me…. Let’s Talk About Jew! is both a provocative commentary on ethnic insularity and a celebration of Australian diversity multi-culturalism.
His Jewish sensibility has profoundly influenced his work as a first generation Australian born to migrants from war-torn countries The constructs of suffering and guilt played an intrinsic role in his formative years. His mother was a child survivor who grew up in post-war communist Poland, and his father arrived in Australia after being denationalized in Egypt following the Arab-Israeli war of 1956. Accordingly, his childhood, along with many others of his contemporaries, existed within a blood transfusion of suffering into which his family dipped its past.
“If we, their offspring, became sick, misbehaved, or did poorly at school, then once again our parents suffered, Jeremie says. “If we married a person not to their liking or we failed to ring them every day, and if our chosen profession fell short of their expectation, again they suffered. If their grandchildren didn’t eat, or walked around with no shoes on, or didn’t wear sweaters or coats on a cold day, again our parents suffered. This seemingly endless cycle of suffering has provided the springboard for my comedy.”
As good Jewish parents, Jeremie adds with a smile, they also demanded nothing more than Jeremie‘s enrollment in Law at his circumcision.
Enough About Me…. Let’s Talk About Jew! is directed by Rachel Forgasz, creator and performer of the SRO Mid-summa festival hit show My Life as a Dyke, with Tomi Kalinski (Barry Humphries/Dame Edna’s MD) as musical director.
Jeremie Bracka has performed widely in the Australian Jewish community and trained professionally as an actor at the National Theatre, St. Kilda. His last show, Shmocks and Two Smoking Salmons enjoyed sell-out seasons at FortyFive Downstairs (2005), Theatre Works (2006), NIDA Parade Studio Sydney (2006) and the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland (2006).


The concept of a one-man show on Jewish ethnicity emerged from the various productions Jeremie Bracka has developed over the years, both in the Melbourne Jewish community (Australian Union of Jewish Studies comedy revues (1998-2000), The showmen and the Booba (2001) and Kosher Culture (2003), and from his professional two-year training at the Australian National Theatre (2000-2002), where he continued to explore the themes of persecution and migration through the medium of theatrical narrative.

As well as working as a professional actor, Jeremie has also fulfilled his mother’s dream by graduating from Law at Monash University and pursuing a successful career as a lawyer with a particular interest in international human rights law. In 2003, he was awarded the Supreme Court Exhibition Prize for achieving the top mark for his Honours thesis in human rights law. In 2004 he worked as a legal intern with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which highlighted the challenging nature of ethnic persecution and intra-cultural prejudice. He has also lived extensively abroad and speaks five languages fluently, including Italian, French, Arabic and Hebrew. These experiences, along with others of this nature, has deepened his insight as an actor and profoundly affected his work politically.