Word: pascalã
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Tragedy works by haunting the psyche—infecting memory with its persistence and perverting identity to the point of total self-denial. Yet it can also serve to preserve one’s past and sense of self, and transform itself into a means of affirmation. Julia Pascal??s play-within-a-play, The Dybbuk, explores this perpetual haunting through the lens of modern Jewish identity, in a stark, powerful and moving production, directed in the Loeb Experimental Theater by Graham A. Sack...
...fact, what moves the audience in Pascal??s play and in Sacks’ production are the stories interspersed and interrupted by gunshots and glaring lights—brief glimpses into the characters’ lives, the narratives they scrape together to forget or to testify to their suffering and the memories they cling to in order to preserve their sense of self and humanity. The sensation of brushing against a woman’s leg in a train ride and the spectacle of a tight-rope walker comprise two of the nights’ most subtly compelling...
...DYBBUK. The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club presents Julia Pascal??s “The Dybbuk,” a Yiddish folktale adapted to take place in the Holocaust. The play, directed by Graham A. Sack ’03, follows five prisoners in a ghetto while waiting for Nazi death camps, and their reclamation of Jewish culture through folklore at the brink of their destruction. Plays through Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., with special performances on Tuesday, April 29 (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Tickets free, available at the Loeb Box Office (617) 547-8300. Loeb Experimental Theater...
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