Bobe Mayses - Yiddish Knights and other Impossibilities, 2016
Bobe Mayses
Performance, Parade and Puppetry
Directed by Jenny Romaine
Script & Story by Michael Wex
Music by Alan Bern
Design by Abigail Miller, Gregory Corbino & Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky
A project of Yiddish Summer Weimar & the Other Music Academy.
Premiere 01.08.2016 Weimar, further shows Erfurt (@Alte Synagoge), Berlin (@Jüdisches Museum)
“Bobe Mayses” is a mixed-media performance and parade. The dazzling show is based on a 500-year old Yiddish bestselling story about knights and fair ladies, the Bovo Bukh. It connects the story’s meanings with contemporary themes around grandmothers, migration and gender-bending heroes. The show was co-created at a four-week international artistic residency in Weimar.
I performed, built and played puppets, sang and danced various roles in this show.
