Vilna's Got a Golem
by Ernest Joselovitz, Jeff Warschauer

Name: Vilna's Got a Golem
Brand: Ernest Joselovitz
SKU: 9780573627163
Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

Male

Comedy

Synopsis

A traveling Jewish theatrical troup encounters a government emissary when they perform their original play based on the classic story of the golem in a small town in Czarist Russian.

Is the play subversive?

It's performed in Yiddish though the audience hears English, so the Russian official must rely on an actor to translated for him.

He is fed a humorously softened version of the witty allegory about government interference with the arts.

Eventually dissension breaks out between those actors who want to give the defiant play as it is written and those who want to do an inoffensive comedy.

Press Reviews

"A confident, carefully thought out work [that] translates Brechtian distancing techniques into a deceptively chipper American style."
— The New York Times

"Fiercely topical, hugely theatrical and unnervingly funny."
— Variety

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
ZEBI the comic star.	—	—	the comic star.
ZAVEL his younger brother, who is-due to recent events- a psychopath	male	—	his younger brother, who is-due to recent events- a psychopath
ZEIZEL their uncle, who plays- among others- the Rabbi	—	—	their uncle, who plays- among others- the Rabbi
ENZO a cousin, who is very big, and plays the Golem	—	—	a cousin, who is very big, and plays the Golem
VASHA wife of Zebi, who plays - among others- the wife of Zebi	female	—	wife of Zebi, who plays - among others- the wife of Zebi