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Yentl

17 October - 10 November 2024

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Winner of four Green Room Awards, this stunning new adaptation, based on the original Yiddish short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, has been heralded as “profound”, “mesmerising”, “bracing and transformative". 

Based on the original Yiddish short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Award-winning bilingual play in Yiddish with surtitles

Beautiful and Profound

The Age

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“Prepare to be astonished” The Age

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 finds her truth through faith and love. 

Yentl is an ode to the feminist undertones and queer subtext of the original story and an invitation to celebrate the beauty of Yiddish culture. 

Presented by Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, Monstrous Theatre and Neil Gooding Productions in association with Shalom

This mesmerising adaptation is nothing short of magic

Time Out

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Australian theatre is so rarely this complex, or this moving

The Guardian

Artist information

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Directed by Gary Abrahams and co-written by Gary Abrahams, Elise Esther Hearst, and Galit Klas  
Associate Director Virginia Proud

Set and Costume design by Dann Barber 
Lighting design by Rachel Burke 
Music and Sound design by Max Lyandvert

Cast
Amy Hack Yentl 
Nicholas Jaquinot Avigdor 
Genevieve Kingsford Hodes
Evelyn Krape The Figure

Understudies
Kandice Joy
Anthony Sandler
Joe Tigel

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