A rabbi explodes with divine fury while waiting for actors who'll never come.
This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angry about the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union.
Acting
Wiseman's volcanic sermon builds to transcendent breakdown.
Direction
Static camera traps you in suffocating synagogue space.
Director
Peter Levin
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