Author: S. Anski
Script & Director: Chris Simion-Mercurian
Decor: Adina Mastalier
Costumes: Viorica Petrovici
Choreography: Ioana Marchidan
Light design: Ștefan Vasilescu & Ionuț Marinache
Assistant Scenography: Clara Pop
Scientific Consultant: Felicia Waldman
Musical Consultant: Risha Deutsch
Genre: Drama
Language: Yiddish (with Romanian translation)
Duration: 120 minutes (no pause)
Premiere: June 28th, 2016
Synopsis:
Considered by critics to be the most valued piece of theater history of Yiddish and Hebrew language, the play “Dybbuk” was written in 1914 by writer and ethnographer S. Ansky. Since 1920 when the first staging held in Poland, the play had a remarkable career both in the Jewish theater, but also non-Jewish, impressing by its originality, form of expression and message.
”Dybbuk is more than just the most provocative play in Yiddish dramatic literature. It is a love story that begins in our real world and fulfills in the other world. A commitment is made between man and God. Breaking this commitment awakens the unseen world and brings revenge the wronged one. Between magic and the usual life, between surrealism and real, between conventional and non-conventional, with sparkles of color between black and white, it happens to win and lose your soul. At one’s door sin always awaits. Humanity becomes more helpless in front of temptation. We do not have to fight with the sin, we must try to make it better. Everything conceived God bears in itself a spark of holiness.” (Chris Simion)