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Igor Golyak reimagines \u2018The Dybbuk\u2019 for the 21st Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen it was created it was very much like any play by Chekhov or Shakespeare,\u201d Golyak told me over the phone two days after opening night. \u201cIt made a revolution of some sort and [it\u2019s about] how you translate the essence of that revolution to today\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, when you walk into the second-floor performance space, it\u2019s like a time warp. You\u2019re immersed in this old world, a shtetl perhaps, one populated by long ago and faraway characters who are very much present in the here and now. And, at times, literally in your face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golyak, who\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0recently called \u201camong the most inventive directors working in the United States,\u201d first encountered\u00a0The Dybbuk\u00a0<\/em>when he was studying at the Schukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. But the idea for this version, which he co-adapted with Dr. Rachel Merrill Moss, came to him about a year and half ago when he visited the Vilna Shul, which was built as an Orthodox synagogue in 1919 primarily by Lithuania immigrants. It was repurposed as Boston\u2019s Center for Jewish Culture in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more at https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/theater\/620641\/dybbuk-ansky-arlekin-golyak-boston-vilna-shul\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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