Longtime friends Josh Greenfeld and Paul Mazursky, who together wrote the Academy award-nominated screenplay for the film ‘Harry and Tonto,’ will come together for a Theatre Palisades benefit. Actor/director/ writer Mazursky will appear in a staged reading of Greenfeld’s two-character play ‘The Last Two Jews of Kabul’ on Saturday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal. Actor Saul Rubinek (‘And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself’) will also perform. ‘I read the play, liked it, and told Josh I’d do it,’ Mazursky told the Palisadian-Post during a telephone interview. Mazursky, one of Hollywood’s most respected filmmakers, has extensive directing credits, including ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,’ ‘Blume in Love,’ Unmarried Woman’ and ‘Down and Out in Beverly Hills.’ He was a regular on the television series ‘Once and Again’ and continues to appear on ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ Palisadian Greenfeld recently returned to theater as a writer after a career as a journalist, critic, novelist and screenwriter. ‘Last Two Jews’ premiered at the La MaMa Theatre in New York last year. His latest play is ‘Generations.’ ‘The Last Two Jews of Kabul’ is based on a true story. After the fall of Kabul in the fall of 2001, two Jewish men were discovered in a city that was once home to 40,000 Jews. These alleged ‘last two Jews’ were sharing as their living quarters the ruins of a synagogue’but not speaking to each other. This and other news accounts inspired Greenfeld’s both comic and dramatic play which fictionalizes the situation into a tale in which the two men’s personalities are in constant conflict and neither seems to be quite truthful about his identity or background. The suggested donation of $10 will benefit the Theatre Palisades Building Fund. Contact: 454-1970. ‘NANCY SMITH
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