Yiddish Waiting for Godot to Give Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart Some Competition
The world premiere will open September 22, one month before previews begin for the Broadway production of the play.
(courtesy of The New Yiddish Rep)
Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play that follows main characters Vladimir and Estragon as the pair spend an interminable amount of time waiting for the arrival of a person named Godot. The New Yiddish Rep's version will be performed in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles.
"[This production] is particularly Jewish," Yassur explains. "The characters are Holocaust survivors, they are facing the unimaginable, and they are waiting for answers that may not come. Yiddish, the language of laughter and tears, captures this sound, this feeling like no other language."
The cast will feature Shane Baker, Avi Hoffman, Nicholas Jenkins, David Mandelbaum, and Rafael Goldwaser.