The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading (2021)

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.

Director: Audrey Sheffield

Casts

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

Crew