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Yentl is the journey of a young woman who defies the Jewish Orthodox tradition that forbids females from studying religious scripture. When her father dies, Yentl emancipates herself by dressing in male guise, determined to live as a man to continue her studies. Religion, gender, sexual politics, and traditional Yiddish culture collide as Yentl ...
- Theatre > Theatre, Adults Aged 16+
- October 17, 2024
1 day ago · Yentl reclaims stage after Opera House rage. A year after the Sydney Opera House was a stage for anti-Semitic chants, the cast of Yentl hope to provide an ‘antidote’ to the division festering ...
Mar 5, 2024 · Yentl returns at a difficult time, but somehow this makes it feel more necessary, more germane. Religious thought so easily becomes intractable, but this production – with the sheer beauty of its spoken Yiddish, its deep and respectful grappling with ideology, the primacy it places on trans identity – points to an alternate view.
Sep 16, 2014 · Leah Napolin’s Yentl would have to be on any short list of best plays about religion and gender—and the production now at Theater J would have to be among its finest incarnations. Based on “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,” a 12-page short story by the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991), the play opened in 1975 on Broadway where it ran for 223 performances.
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Sep 3, 2014 · ‘Yentl’: Pop music in the shtetl. Back row, from left, Shanta Parasuraman, Jesse Terrill, Lindsay Elizabeth Williams, Mark Bergman and Brandon McCoy. Front row, from left, Shayna Blass and ...
Feb 29, 2024 · This new stage adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer’s iconic short story is the first since the 1975 Broadway play and Barbra Streisand’s iconic 1983 musical film. Yentl is the journey of a young woman who defies the Jewish orthodox tradition that forbids females from studying religious scripture.
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Yentl is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Yanev [ 3 ] in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Reb Mendel (“Papa”), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. Yentl refuses to be married off to a man. After the death of her father, Yentl decides to cut ...
