Бабушка | BAb(oo)shka

WORLD PREMIERE
14th St Y

344 E 14th St. New York, NY 10003

September 26- October 5, 2019

Tickets available HERE

Photo Credit: Teddy Wolff for PuppetLab at St Ann’s Warehouse

Бабушка | BAb(oo)shka is an interdisciplinary performance that begins with my grandmother telling a true story chosen by her in Russian onstage. Her humorous anecdotes about Jewish oppression are then contemporaneously translated into gibberish, into klezmer music, and into a puppet melodrama. These retellings weave together to create a meta-conversation on the act of translation and historicization, exposing the realities of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and how those experiences transform across generations and migrations.

Created in collaboration with: Marianna Baker and Tatiana Lublin

Composition: Julia Danitz

Choreography and Dramaturgy: Elena Rose Light