Sandra Laub, an award-winning actress and veteran teacher, has been performing William Gibson’s Tony Award-winning one-woman play, Golda’s Balcony, in a variety of settings—theaters, classrooms, social halls, sanctuaries—to critical acclaim and heartfelt audience response since 2013.

Golda’s Balcony is a 90-minute tour-de force. With humor, pathos, and passion, we see her journey from impoverished child in Czarist Russia to becoming Israel’s 4th Prime Minister scrambling to save the country from impending destruction during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At the heart of the play is Meir’s lifelong struggle to attain peace while agonizing over difficult moral choices, including especially the ‘terrible question’: “What happens when idealism becomes power?”

The birth of a nation and the pioneering spirit of its founders are embodied in Golda Meir. She was a wife, a mother, a worker, and attained extraordinary stature on the world stage. Golda’s struggle to reconcile the power Israel attained as a sovereign nation with the competing forces of family, as well as humanitarian considerations personalizes the taut drama centered on Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear capability: Golda’s view “into hell.”

For some audience members, this is a “new” story. After one performance, three generations of one family told how meaningful it was to see the play together: grandparents and parents remembering, grandchild learning -- a story that must be continually told and never forgotten.

Thank you to our community partners, No Moss Brands, Jewish community of Sedona and the Verde Valley Synagogue, Sedona Arts Academy, The Collective Sedona, Debbie Gallaway, Realtor of Caldwell Banker for making this production a success.

Produced by special arrangement of Concord Theatricals 

The Emerson Theater Collaborative (ETC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to serve youth, under-represented communities and artists with an emphasis on diversity, by producing innovative and thought-provoking theater both in southeastern Connecticut and Sedona, Arizona.  ETC explores timely themes and issues through new, original works and modern theatrical classics. We develop and nurture both emerging and professional artists, and collaborate with the Emerson College network of alumni and students. Our goals include reaching youth through educational theatrical programming, supporting local communities by providing free admission to low-income families, and donating profits to humanitarian causes.  For more information, go to EmersonTheaterCollaborative.org.