The Dybbuk

Summary: 1980 BBC production of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky.
Theatre play: The Dybbuk by S. Ansky [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The story of a young bride possessed by a dybbuka malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead personon the eve of her wedding’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dybbuk).
Production history: 'On December 9, 1920, the play opened at the Elyseum Theatre in Warsaw. A year after the Warsaw premiere the play was produced again by Maurice Schwartz in New York City’s Yiddish Art Theatre and several months later the Hebrew translation by H. N. Bialik was staged in Moscow by the Habima Theatre, under the direction of Yevgeny Vakhtangov, a protege of both Stanislavski’s and Meyerhold’s and director of the experimental "Studio One" of the Moscow Art Theatre. At that time, Habima was the Hebrew language unit of the MAT. They later emigrated to Palestine and after Israeli independence, became the state’s national theatre’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dybbuk#Production_history).
Date of transmission: Sunday 24 February 1980
Time: 8.05-10.10pm
Series: Festival
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC

Director

Jane Howell

Producer

Louis Marks

Playwright

S. Ansky

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Cast

Frank Baker	Chennoch
John Bennett	Messenger
Martin Benson	Rabbi Samson
Peter Benson	Berl
Gary Brown	Channon
John Burgess	Michoel
Simon Callow	Asher / Rabbi Mendel
Jeffrey Chiswick	Nisson Ben Rivke / Second Batlon / Man on Cart
Danielle Corgan	Batia
Harold Goldblatt	Azrael
Joseph Greig	Coachman
Stuart Griffiths
Louis Hammond	Menashe
Judith Harte	Hannah Esther; Pale Woman
Alfred Hoffman	Matchmaker
Leila Hoffman	Lame Woman
Caryn Hurwitz	Gittel
Leon Lissek	Third Batlon / Man on Crutches
Jack Lynn	First Batlon
Mercia Mansfield	Half-Blind Woman
Wolfe Morris	Meyer
Elizabeth Spriggs	Frade
David Swift	Sender
Clive Thomas
Gabor Vernon	Nachmon
Giselle Wolf	Leah

Title: The Dybbuk (BBC, 1980)
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