Thurs. September 10th @7:30pm at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, (Kiplinger Theatre), we're proud to present “Waiting for Godot" (with ENGLISH supertitles). An award-winning Yiddish translation of Samuel Beckett's “Waiting for Godot," this tight, edgy production played to acclaim at the Beckett festival in Ireland.
The successful staging of this famous play places its characters in an unmoored war-torn landscape where refugees wander as they wait for the unknown. The play was written in French at the end of 1948 when the truth about the extermination camps had become known.
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This New Yiddish Rep production of Shane Baker's translation (he also plays Vladimir), presented as part of Origin's 1st Irish Festival, in Yiddish, with English supertitles, is advertised like a gimmick: "At last a 'Godot' you'll understand!" But the performance feels natural enough to suggest that Beckett's play (which was first produced in French) may have finally found its mother tongue." - The New Yorker
NO YIDDISH LANGUAGE SKILLS REQUIRED! Designed for people with no prior knowledge of Yiddish or Judaism!
Starring Shane Baker, David Mandelbaum and, Allen Lewis Rickman (Boardwalk Empire)
The 'Godot' We've All Been Waiting For: "There’s a lot that’s perfect about doing “Waiting for Godot” in Yiddish, even if we needed this production, directed by Moshe Yassur for New Yiddish Rep, to make us realize it. Through Baker’s translation and the cast’s performances — Mandelbaum and Baker outdo themselves as the existential odd couple of Estragon and Vladimir... — the New Yiddish Rep has created a distinctive work that possesses its own power while shedding new light on the original." - The Forward
Yiddish "Godot" to Open Beckett Festival in Northern Ireland. - The New York Times
"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?" - At the heart of "Waiting For Godot" is a simple message: Put yourself in the other guy's shoes.
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The first Ithaca Yiddish Theater Festival is brought to you by Jewish Studies - Cornell University and Jewish Studies at Ithaca College, with additional sponsorship from the Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca Area United Jewish Community and Temple Beth-El of Ithaca, NY
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TICKETS are $11 student/child, $13 adult
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