The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre (Montreal, Canada) has been dramatizing the Jewish experience and sustaining the legacy of Yiddish theater since its founding in 1958. It has presented more than 85 plays– classics and original works, dramas and musicals – to critical acclaim at home and around the world. Dora Wasserman, the company’s founder, was honored with many awards including the Order of Canada, the Order of Quebec, and a Masque Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Quebec theater community.
The Yiddish theatre’s gothic masterpiece of quintessential Yiddish tale of desire, darkness and exiled spirit springs to life in this DWYT production of The Dybbuk. The story tells the story of love caught between two worlds, and a community torn between religion, superstition and spiritualism. Two children, betrothed by their parents before birth, are drawn together years later in a desperate web of ill-fated love and possession.
Part of KulturfestNYC 2015
SATURDAY JUNE 20 @ 9 PM
SUNDAY JUNE 21 @ 2 PM
