Susan Irvine, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
When a production is as visually rich and finely acted as Dybbuk, by the company TR Warszawa, it doesn't matter that is also happens to be in Polish with s...
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Andrew Dickson, THE GUARDIAN
There is no denying the flesh-crawling fascination of the dybbuk, the folk tale of a tormented spirit that lodges itself in the body of an innocent.
Combi...
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Joyce McMillan, THE SCOTSMAN
The idea of the return of the repressed - the haunting of the living by all that has been denied, hidden or lied about in the past - is one of the great themes o...
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Llyod Evans, THE SPECTATOR
Perhaps it should be the Inter-notional Festival. The posh bit of Edinburgh, the International Festival, is incurably besotted with the idea of conceptual hybrids,...
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Lynne Walker, THE INDEPENDENT
"Are we all possessed by dybbuks in our ordinary life?" asks Krzysztof Warlikowski, whose production of Dybbuk with the Polish TR Warszawa company ope...
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Dominic Cavendish, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Polish director Krzysztof Warlikowski's Dybbuk is a drifting meditation on possession. Joining it in the opening weekend was The Tell-Tale Heart - a mo...
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Neil Cooper, THE HERALD
Seven men and women of a certain age sit side by side at the front of the stage, with the lights up on the audience. Each of those gathered tells a story, weaving a w...
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Ian Shuttleworth, FINANCIAL TIMES
The theatrical side of the International Festival - this year themed "Artists Without Borders" - began last weekend with TR Warszawa's Dybbuk, a b...
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Mark Fisher, THE LIST
The idea to combine two different treatments of the Jewish myth of the dybbuk is inspired. In sandwiching together the play by Szymon Anski, a traditional drama about a...
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Steve Cramer, THE SCOTSMAN
About ten miles outside Tel Aviv, on the road to Jerusalem, there's a mighty land development in progress. Judging by the half-finished motorway bridge that overlo...
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Benedict Nightingale, THE TIMES
With work from Bosnia, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Belgium, Switzerland and even Scotland on offer this year, the official Edinburgh Festival's theatri...
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Caroline McGinn, TIME OUT
As I staggered late, damp and too knackered even to curse the thieves who nicked the signal cable at Grantham and derailed my journey from London to Edinburgh's Kin...
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Tina Jackson, METRO
In Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a restless soul that inhabits the body of one of the living. Based on Szymon Anski's play and a short story by Hanna Krall, director Krzys...
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Steve Cramer, THE LIST
On the stage of Jerusalem's Sherover Theatre, a beautiful young woman tears open her wedding gown and begins speaking in tongues. A rabbi is attempting a conversation ...
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Neil Genzlinger, THE NEW YORK TIMES
The pumpkins are out, the vampire costumes are in the stores: it's the time of year to ponder the perils of being possessed by a soul from the great beyon...
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Tomasz Cyz, TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY
Dybbuk is a damned soul taking possession of the living person's body, the soul wanting to be cleared of the committed sin or the one demanding to undo the ev...