![]() The enduring popularity of The Dybbuk can be attributed to its being far more than a ghost story - a Fiddler-on-the-Roof-meets-The- Exorcist. There have been theatrical films, a television show, operas, even puppet theater productions. Habima, the national theater of Israel, made it its signature piece. Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein created one of at least two ballets based on it. Today, it continues to be performed around the world, in a stream of new translations and adaptations, by companies ranging from the Royal Shakespeare Company to New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre. The play - about a “dybbuk,” or a disembodied spirit that possesses a young woman and is exorcised to tragic result - was an immediate hit and went on to become the most popular play of Yiddish theater. Ansky’s The Dybbuk at the Elyseum Theatre in Warsaw 100 years ago - on Decemit could not anticipate the phenomenon it was unleashing upon the world. When the Vilna Troupe staged the world premiere of S. ![]()
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