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British audiences are relatively unfamiliar with the dramas of Eastern Europe, but both A Dybbuk and The Wedding would be familiar in any theatre in Poland or the Ukraine. These are two great Symbolist dramas from the beginning of the last century. In each we see a village caught between the Old World and the New. In different ways each play presents us with a phantasmagoria of ghosts and spirits come to test their respective traditional communities. In each the weight of history, of collective story, hangs heavy over what Wyspianski calls a "world of magic spells and charms" of prayers and curses. The subtitle ?Between Two Worlds" could apply to both as they explore heaven and hell, ancient and modern, in poetry, dance and song. As Ansky says:

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Author: S Ansky