Yiddish Theatre Forum [YTF]
Joel Berkowitz, Editor <yankl@albany.edu>
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Contents of Volume 5.003
1) Peretz Hirschbein’s The Amulet (Ellen Perecman)
2) Jacob
Terr (Lynne Terr)
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Date:
From: Ellen Perecman
Subject: Peretz Hirschbein’s The Amulet
NEW WORLDS THEATRE
PROJECT PRESENTS
PERETZ HIRSHBEIN’S
AT THE 78TH
STREET THEATRE LAB
PREVIEWS BEGIN
New
Worlds Theatre Project will begin previews of Peretz Hirshbein’s THE
AMULET,
Adapted for the first time from the original Yiddish, this 100-year old play takes place in a world of seers and miracle-workers, where people are expected to suffer in silence. They wear amulets to protect them, waiting passively for the promise of future happiness. The Amulet is the story of a girl who refuses to wait. The play’s unusual style combines elements of Greek tragedy, Russian avant-garde, and the Old Testament.
Peretz Hirshbein (1880 -1948),
the son of a Russian miller, was the founder of the Art movement in
Yiddish theatre.
His work was
forever immortalized by Edgar Ulmer, legendary director of The
Black Cat and Detour, in the film he made of Hirshbein’s play Green
Fields. The film was named Best Foreign Film of 1938 (France).
Isaac Butler’s directing credits include the US Premiere of Line Knutzon's First
You're Born at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater; the world premiers of Clay McLeod
Chapman's Redbird at 45 Below and Volume
of Smoke at the Firehouse Theater in Richmond, Virginia; The Last Five
Years by Jason Robert Brown (also at the Firehouse); In Private/In
Public and Sustaining, both by George Hunka
and both at Manhattan Theater Source; Cop-Out by John Guare at the Access Theater; and Henry IV, Part 1 at
the Powerhouse Theater.
The
cast includes Hanna Cheek (Off Broadway: Pumpkin Pie Show, The Zipper;
TV: West Wing, Titus, MTV’s Undressed), Anita Keal (Broadway: M Butterfly, Tribute), David
Little (Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation; Film: First Born, The Bet) and Daryl Lathon
(Off-Broadway: Volume of Smoke, Horsetrade,
Dead Reckoning at Soho Rep).
Set
Design is by David Birn. Lighting is by Sabrina
Braswell. Costumes by Sydney Marseca.
Performances
of THE AMULET are Wednesday –
Saturday at
Tickets
are $18 and can be purchased through SmartTix: www.smarttix.com or by calling (212)
868-4444. For more information call (917) 513-7620.
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Date:
From: Lynne Terr
Subject: Jacob Terr
Recently we discovered that my husband's great-grandfather,
Jacob Terr, was a Yiddish playwright.* We have been
alerted to entries on him in the Lexicon of New Yiddish Literature, Lexicon
of the Yiddish Theatre, and Sholem Perlmutter’s book on Yiddish playwrights and composers, but
would be interested if readers can provide any additional information and/or
resources about him.
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End of Yiddish Theatre Forum 05.003
Yiddish Theatre Forum
Joel Berkowitz, Editor
Leonard Prager, Senior Adviser
Editorial Board
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