The Gett

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The Gett is a tale of the dirty and the divine, drawing on everything from the Torah to bad sex. It’s about the tacky menorah in your lobby behind the Christmas tree and the lover whose phone number you can’t forget and that voicemail from your mother you haven’t listened to yet. As sacred as it is profane, this is a play about recreating a self. Herself.

As Liba describes, “The entire play is actually an English expansion, translation, and adaptation of the opening verses of the Torah or Old Testament. In seven “days,” a woman is created. On the first day, she falls in love and the first spark of life - light - is made. On the second, they divorce and the heavens are separated from the earth. On the third, dry land and oceans appear as she swims and sinks in new relationships. On the fourth, her ex returns to make the celestial bodies, and she finally banishes him. On the fifth day, all the other creatures are made, and she finds herself at the threshold of context and conclusion. On the sixth day, woman is finally made from man through a separation, a Gett. And on the seventh day, her mother reminds her to rest before she begins again. A new week of creation.”

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