|
|
Article: "Between Two Worlds": the Dybbuk and the Japanese Noh and Kabuki ghost plays.
- Article from:
- Comparative Drama
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 www.wmich.edu/compdr. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds by S. Ansky (Shlomo Rapoport) (1) the most renowned production by Ha'bimah (The Stage), Israel's National Theater. It premiered in 1922 in Moscow, staged by Ha'bimah, which was a Russian-Jewish company at that time, with the advice and support of Constantin Stanislavski. The play was performed in Hebrew and directed by the Russian-Armenian Yevgeny Vakhtangov shortly before he died. (2) Since then it has been staged more than one thousand times, reviving Vakhtangov's direction, and has become probably the most famous Jewish and Israeli play.
The play's themes, structures, dramatic means, and theatrical elements show a remarkable ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: A queer dybbuk
The Village Voice;
December 2, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... burn in hell. This line is lifted from A Dybbuk, a play Kushner has ruminated on for ... the quintessential Yiddish tragedy. A Dybbuk speaks not only of forbidden love and ... About that burn-in-hell remark: InA Dybbuk, it's a curse the rn of Brinitz hurl ...
|
|