The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
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View on VideBits →On the day of her wedding, Leah is possessed by a dybbuk – the spirit of her former lover who died after learning of her engagement to another man. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk is a complex and meticulously crafted tragedy in which two lovers, betrothed before birth and denied earthly communion, are ultimately bound together for all eternity. This semi-staged reading took take place at the Almeida, as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play.
Cast & crew
Andy Nyman · David Horovitch · Eleanor Wyld · Elliot Levey · Esther Smith · Ilan Goodman · Joshua Higgott · Jos Slovick · Lilit Lesser · Sara Kestelman · Audrey Sheffield · Sholom Ansky