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Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater, Off Broadway, NY

1997

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Theatre Communications Group, USA

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Adaptation

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doubling recommended

Notes: The classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel.

Synopsis: Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Collectively, these tales illuminate different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Adaptation

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Notes: adapted by Donald Margulies; Original Playwright - Sholom Asch, based on a literal translation by Joachim Neugroschel

Synopsis: Pultizer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies has transported Sholom Asch's 1906 Yiddish melodrama from Asch's native Poland to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1923 and in the process has transformed a classic morality tale into a drama of spellbinding power and sweep. Jack Chapman lives on the second floor of his tenement with his ex-prostitute wife, Sara, and seventeen-year-old daughter, Rivkele, and runs a brothel downstairs. The brothel has made Jack prosperous, but he aspires to something more-respectability, and towards that end, he hopes to marry his precious daughter to a Talmudic scholar. But the sheltered Rivkele has struck up a friendship with Manke, Jack's most-desired prostitute, and the gentle and genuine love affair that develops between the two young women threatens to destroy Jack's dreams for the future