Ari is the Jewish best friend I never had! – Interview with Deli Segal and Tanya Truman
This December, Tanya Truman and Deli Segal will bring their hilarious comedy show, Pickle, to MJM as part of Synagogue Nights, a season of intimate evening events in our synagogue. We’ve recently spoken to them both about this darkly comic piece.
Here’s the shtick: Ari is caught between two worlds. Still living at her family home in North-West London, she has her life dominated by overbearing parents, religious traditions, and high expectations. Then there’s her day-to-day life; the job, the pub and the *sigh* love life.
Written and performed by Deli Segal and produced by Tanya Truman, Pickle is a darkly comic one-woman show about reconciling belief and tradition with change. It explores the complex, yet all-too-familiar experience of trying to find balance between two conflicting worlds. What does it mean to be a young Jewish woman in North-West London today? We talked about it with Deli and Tanya!
What is Pickle about and where did the idea for this show come from?
D: Pickle is a one-woman show which follows Ari, a young Jewish woman from North-West London as she navigates life between her traditional family home and her non-Jewish life outside it. It was inspired by growing up in the North-West London Jewish community and the vibrant characters I saw around me. I wanted to celebrate the young Jewish female experience in a play that was joyful and comic, rather than focus on suffering.
