Huntcliff Purim Players Present Purim Spiel

The Purim Players of Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit, all of them residents of the senior living community in Sandy Springs, presented a Purim Spiel after their weekly Shabbat service on March 14. Featured as Queen Esther in the play was 92-year-old Bunny Maron, and King Ahasuerus was 88-year-old Erwin Barrington. Maron’s late husband once helped to introduce American audiences to the “Godzilla” series of motion pictures from Japan. Barrington is a retired dentist.

The producer and director of the Purim Spiel was Art Schultz, who is 89. He credits an artificial intelligence computer program for coming up with the final script he used for the production.

“Of all the Purim Spiels I looked at, the one done by artificial intelligence was the best,” Schultz said.

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It was a new spin of the classic story of Purim as told in the Book of Esther, which some Biblical historians claim to be set during the later years of the fifth century B.C.E.