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The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 19, 2021

Runtime

1h 54m

Original Title

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

Director

Audrey Sheffield

Description

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.