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Redbridge JCC's Purim celebrations
Plenty of laughs at Redbridge JCC's Purim show
The festival of Purim gave the perfect excuse for members, staff and volunteers of Jewish Care’s Redbridge Community Centre to take to the stage. The show at the centre in Woodford Bridge Road took place on Monday 17 March and further performances were due to take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Programmes coordinator Derek Fisher devised a series of sketches based on television shows with hilarious results. He also had starring roles as Bruce Forsyth in Play Your Cards Right and Noel Edmonds in Deal or No Deal, as well as taking part in a Come Dancing skit. Derek also impersonated Anne Robinson in The Weakest Link, as centre administrator Hazel Michaels who was due to appear had lost her voice.
“You’re rubbish,” Derek told centre manager Daniel Carmel-Brown, as he walked The Walk of Shame, resulting in peals of laughter.
Perhaps most impressive was the Come Dancing sketch in which volunteer Terry Chyte, his wife Mal Chyte, and welfare services manager Susan Nahum joined Derek to demonstrate their versatility on the dance floor. They did the Waltz, the Cha Cha and a line-dancing display.
“It is all good fun, we enjoy doing it and the [day centre] members love watching us make fools of ourselves,” said Derek afterwards.
Before the show began, staff member Alex Carson gave a Powerpoint presentation about the festival, explaining the story of Purim, which is one of the jolliest festivals in the Jewish calendar.
This year Purim begins on the evening of Thursday 20 March when the story which is told in the Book of Esther, is read from a scroll called a Megillah. It is about an evil man called Haman who tried to destroy the Jews of the Persian Empire. Customs include giving food parcels and eating pastries filled with poppy seeds, known as Hamantaschen.
