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The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading (2021)

Directed by Audrey Sheffield

Overview

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.

Length 114 minutes

Actors

Ilan Goodman | Joshua Higgott | David Horovitch | Sara Kestelman | Lilit Lesser | Elliot Levey | Andy Nyman | Jos Slovick | Esther Smith | Eleanor Wyld