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This weekend, in the spirit of tradition, the Hillel Drama Society is producing Fiddler on the Roof, a play showcasing the conflict between tradition and modernity...
...early 20th-century Anatevka, a small town in the Russian Pale—the region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule—Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...
...Fiddler] is about traditions, values that are instilled from parents to children and how children must choose between the lives their parents choose for them and their own desires,” Galper says. “These are issues that we can all relate to regardless of ethnic or religious affiliation...
...town of Anatevka is full of such archetypal characters: the meddling matchmaker, the rich, unsavory butcher and the wise Rabbi. They deliver wisdom, laughs and song throughout Fiddler...
...performs at the Pool in November as well. The Triumph of Camilla is performing at the Fogg Museum Nov. 19-22, and The Heiress (Leverett Old Library) performs in December. If that isn’t enough, make your reading period more enjoyable with The Two-Character Play and Fiddler on the Roof...