YENTL – Marylebone Theatre
Yentl is synonymous with the 1983 musical featuring Barbara Streisand which told the story of a Jewish girl seeking an education, decides to disguise herself as a boy and enters an orthodox school where she falls in love with Avigdor her classmate. All is going well until Avigdor’s fiancée falls in love with Yentl. This matrix of deceit, lies and romance is crystallised in Abrahams, Hearst and Klas writingandproduction of Yentl.
This play forms part of the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s centenary celebration and their “commitment to sharing the richness of Yiddish language and Jewish culture”. Straight from the Sidney Opera House to its premier in London.
There are no surprises that this play’s hybrid dialogue is English and Yiddish which is aided by projected readable subtitles on the se...