From left, Sammi Cohen, Richard Scooter Rosenthal, and Jamal Abdunnasir star in the romantic comedy "Handle With Care," opening Saturday at JCC Centerstage, Rochester.
ROCHESTER -- For Rochester actress Sammi Cohen, the challenges of performing in "Handle with Care," a new, romantic comedy, opening Saturday at JCC CenterStage, 1200 Edgewood Ave., reach far beyond those of a typical actress. In addition to learning staging, memorizing lines and developing a believable character, she had to learn Hebrew.
The comedy about a young Israeli woman who gets trapped in a snowstorm in rural Virginia on Christmas Eve includes significant passages where she speaks in Hebrew as her American counterparts struggle to understand her.
"It's amazing how much you can convey with body language and a few words of broken English," says Cohen who worked with recordings and coaches to master the complex pronunciations, "but the fun part for the audience is how they experience the same thing the other characters do as we struggle to make connections and be understood."
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