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Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance

Nahma Sandrow

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Description:Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range of Yiddish theater. Fresh, lively, and accurate, these translations have been prepared for reading or performance by award-winning playwright and scholar Nahma Sandrow. They come with useful stage directions, notes, and playing histories, as well as comments by directors who have worked in both English and Yiddish theater. In the three full-length plays, a matriarch battles for control of her business and her family (Mirele Efros; or, The Jewish Queen Lear); two desperate women struggle over a man, who himself is struggling to change his life (Yankl the Blacksmith); and, in a charming fantasy village, a poetic village fiddler gambles on romance (Yoshke the Musician). The nine scenes from selected other plays are shaped to stand alone and range in genre from symbolist to naturalist, operetta to vaudeville, domestic to romantic to avant-garde. In her preface, Sandrow contextualizes the plays in modern Western theater history from the nineteenth century to the present. Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance is not nostalgia—just a collection of good plays that also serves as an informed introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.“Nahma Sandrow is one of the foremost translators of Yiddish drama into English. These translations achieve the elusive goal of adhering closely enough to the originals to give English readers a clear sense of the texts, while being bold enough to serve as lively, readable, and stageworthy works in their own right.” — Joel Berkowitz, coeditor and cotranslator of Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical AnthologyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance. To get started finding Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range of Yiddish theater. Fresh, lively, and accurate, these translations have been prepared for reading or performance by award-winning playwright and scholar Nahma Sandrow. They come with useful stage directions, notes, and playing histories, as well as comments by directors who have worked in both English and Yiddish theater. In the three full-length plays, a matriarch battles for control of her business and her family (Mirele Efros; or, The Jewish Queen Lear); two desperate women struggle over a man, who himself is struggling to change his life (Yankl the Blacksmith); and, in a charming fantasy village, a poetic village fiddler gambles on romance (Yoshke the Musician). The nine scenes from selected other plays are shaped to stand alone and range in genre from symbolist to naturalist, operetta to vaudeville, domestic to romantic to avant-garde. In her preface, Sandrow contextualizes the plays in modern Western theater history from the nineteenth century to the present. Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance is not nostalgia—just a collection of good plays that also serves as an informed introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.“Nahma Sandrow is one of the foremost translators of Yiddish drama into English. These translations achieve the elusive goal of adhering closely enough to the originals to give English readers a clear sense of the texts, while being bold enough to serve as lively, readable, and stageworthy works in their own right.” — Joel Berkowitz, coeditor and cotranslator of Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical AnthologyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance. To get started finding Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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