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Ida Kaminska
and the Jewish State Theatre of Poland
Play in New York City, 1967

 

In "Mirele Efros"
Ida Kaminska, July 1933

 

There are works and plays of this kind of classic style, mean that one does not read them and does not see them again. It's better to keep in one's mind the impression of how they were once-upon-a-time, during "those good times," when one read the work or the play or saw it with that special kind of religious thrill and piety that is hard now to relive once again.

In her time, "Mirele Efros" has had he appeal and interest. It is associated with the time of transition, when the professional Yiddish theatre took to speaking like people and began to create types, characters. I once saw in the role of Mirele Efros -- the Strelskaya, who played very finely the proud role of Mother Efros, then the famous Russian artists Paskalova (in the famous Kiev "Solovtsov" Theatre), and only later the unforgettable Esther Rachel Kaminska, -- and going back several years Lidia Potocka. Also the other characters from "Mirele Efros" are also well-etched in our memory from time immemorial.

If you bring up "Mirele Efros" now -- you have to do something -- with respect to the playing of the individual actors, or about the production in general.

 

 Ida Kaminska performs in the role with tact, with understanding, according to a fine plan. But the main thing is missing: the majestic, the proud Mirele Efros. When everyone is afraid of her "cloth" and pays close attention to her, when Mirele enters the room, the room becomes filled with her and everyone who looks at her can seem small and insignificant, become useless and insignificant, and this was not felt. Now in the play, this is not the "Mirele Efros."

In "Mirele Efros" there also played, for better or for worse: Klara Segalowicz (Szejndele), Naomi Natan (Machle), Simcha Natan (Nuchemtse), Adam Domb (Szlojmele), E. Shtokfeder (Chane Dwojre), Yitzhak Krelman (Josele), Kasivner (Donie) et al.

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This review, in Yiddish, appeared in the "Literarishe bleter" of July 14, 1933.

 

 



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