A Wedding with a Divorce

by Sholem Aleichem

A comic fantasy showing how marriages were arranged in traditional Jewish families, and the well-known relations between mother-in-law and son-in-law. A newly married young couple is harried without pause by the mother-in-law, who tries to be rid of her son-in-law by using the influence she has over her daughter. It remains to be seen who wins in the end: the mother-in-law's persistence and scheming, or the love between the two young people? A musical comedy that presents, with humour and invention, a fairy-tale world, an enchanted and enchanting land.

Director: Dan Tudor
Set and costume design: Doru Zanfir
Music: Vlad Crețu, Dan Tudor
Movement: Păstorel Ionescu

Sure Hanțe: Viorica Bantaș
Riven Hers (her husband): Mihai Ciucă
Etel (their daughter, the emancipated young woman): Geni Brenda Vexler
Motl (their son-in-law, a doctor): Veaceslav Grosu
Avruncik (their son, a follower of the Enlightenment): Mircea Dragoman / Marius Călugărița
Reb Șulem (matchmaker): Mihai Prejban / Mircea Drîmbăreanu
Levi-Beniumin (Motl's friend): Neculai Predica
Braine (musical storyteller): Leonie Waldman Eliad / Arabela Neazi
Reb Orke (rabbi): Nicolae Călugărița
Prime-Libe (the rabbi's wife): Mirela Nicolau
Reb Zecharie, The Scribe, Zlate, Idl the Usher, Jewish witnesses

Genre

Comedy

Language

Yiddish (with Romanian surtitles)

Running time

80 minutes (no interval)

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