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THE DYBBUK (c1920s) Rare MOSCOW THEATER HABIMA Deluxe 16p English PROGRAM!

$ 131.47

Availability: 75 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
  • Object Type: Souvenir Program
  • Modified Item: No
  • Industry: Theater
  • Year: Pre-1940
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Condition: Very Good to Fine!

    Description

    THE DYBBUK (c1920s) Rare MOSCOW THEATER HABIMA Deluxe 16p English Language PROGRAM!
    *GUARANTEED VINTAGE AND ORIGINAL!
    *From a recently discovered private collection of theatrical and dance programs ~
    *Size is 8.75 x 11.5 ~
    *Stiff Covers with 16 interior pages of photos and information, including a
    lengthy synopsis of the play - Rare English Language Version of the Program.
    *In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being exorcised.
    *The term first appears in a number of 16th-century writings, ignored by mainstream scholarship until S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk popularised the concept in literary circles. Traditionally, dybbuks tended to be male spirits who possessed women on the eve of their weddings typically in a sexual fashion by entering the women through their vaginas which is seen in Ansky's play.
    *The Hebrew-language premiere was staged on 31 January 1922, at Habima's residence in the Sekretariova Theater. Rovina, Miriam Elias (who was replaced by male actors in subsequent stagings), Shabtai Prudkin and Nachum Tzemach appeared in the four leading roles. Habima performed it precisely 300 times in the Soviet Union, 292 in Moscow; the last was on 18 January 1926, before it embarked on an international tour.
    *
    Ansky's play is a significant work of Yiddish theatre, and has been adapted a number of times by writers, composers, and other creators including Jerome Robbins/Leonard Bernstein and Tony Kushner. In the play, a young bride is possessed by the ghost of the man she was meant to marry, had her father not broken a marriage agreement. (Wiki)
    *OVERALL CONDITION: Very Good to Fine - See Photos - Light staining bottom left tip of cover that follows program throughout - You won't be disappointed in this rare beauty!
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