Join us for the US premiere of The Dybbuk, a mystical Yiddish folk tale about love, family, displacement, and the restless Jewish soul. These special performances designed specifically for our building resonate profoundly within the historic sanctuary of The Vilna Shul. The Arlekin Players are The Vilna’s very first theatre troupe in residence, and The Dybbuk is part of their Jewish Plays Initiative. Starring Andrey Burkovskiy as Khonen/The Dybbuk and Yana Gladkih as Leah, tragic young lovers hovering between the worlds of the living and the beyond. The cast also features Arlekin’s resident company members.
Special talkback with Director Igor Golyak and Vilna Board President Bob Thurer following the matinee performance on June 9.
Tickets for all performances are available on the Arlekin Players Theater website.
About Arlekin Players Theater
Arlekin Players Theatre was founded by Ukrainian-born artistic director Igor Golyak in 2009 and launched its (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab in 2020. Most recently, Arlekin co-produced Our Class off-Broadway in 2024, in partnership with MART Foundation at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), a featured production of the Under the Radar Festival. In 2023, they produced Just Tell No One, part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings project, at their studio in Needham, MA, at The Huntington Theatre in Boston and at Lincoln Center in NYC, and in spring 2023, the US Premiere of Sasha Denisova’s The Gaaga in a site-specific production in Harvard Square. Arlekin received worldwide acclaim, including two New York Times Critics Picks, for their virtual projects during the pandemic.
A company of immigrants, the award-winning Arlekin Players Theatre has toured internationally, performing work that explores identity, culture, antisemitism, home, belonging, tradition, and finding common humanity and themes that unite us. The company makes its home in Needham, MA.
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