Adapted for a Staged Reading: Sholem Asch’s Shabbtai Tsvi

Translator and adapter Weaver sits down with The Shmooze to talk about the drama group Theater Between Addresses and its upcoming immersive, staged reading of Sholem Asch’s Shabbtai Tsvi, which Weaver translated and adapted. Never before performed in its entirety, the play shows the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Shabbtai Tsvi, the 17th-century Ottoman Jewish mystic whose messianic aspirations attracted a following of thousands of Jews from every corner of the earth. The reading will take place outdoors on the grounds of the Yiddish Book Center.