The Red Beads

By Rinne Groff
Based on The Singer of His Sorrows by Osip Dymov
As adapted by Adrian Guo-Silver and Rinne Groff
From a translation by Adrian Guo-Silver
Directed by Johanna Gruenhut
April 7–May 2, 2021

A FUNNY AND MOVING NEW PLAY

A charming, comical, and stirring fable, drawn from one of the great stories of the Yiddish Theater. When a father’s bedtime story magically comes to life, his young daughter is plunged into the world of a poor shtetl poet, desperately in love with a woman who spurns him. With great wit and even greater heart, The Red Beads explores the beauty – and the pain – of letting love triumph over logic. The Red Beads is a world premiere adaptation, and the second full production of Theater J’s signature Yiddish Theater Lab.