In 2008, members of Habimah, Israel's national theater, developed a new,
playful vision for one of the classic expressionistic masterpieces of the
Russian Jewish theater, The Dybbuk. Habimah's reimagined version of the
haunting early 20th Century play about a bride-to-be possessed by the dead
soul of her one true love deftly combines handcrafted puppets and live
actors in a production that blurs the boundaries between the natural and
supernatural and offers an affectionate and humorous portrait of the
shtetl's religious and cultural life.