yiddish-art-theatre/04/threegifts/3

Three Gifts

In Two Parts and Thirteen Scenes
By I. L. Peretz

Dramatized by MELACH RAVITCH and MAURICE SCHWARTZ
Music by JOSEPH RUMSHINSKY

Settings and Costumes by H. A. CONDELL
Dances by LILLIAN SHAPERO Play Staged by MAURICE SCHWARTZ

CHARACTERS

MEYER ....................................... CHAIM ....................................... SHAMAY .................................... LEVY .......................................... PESHEH ..................................... MIREL (Wife of Joel) JOEL (her husband, father of the musicians) IN-LAW ...................................... BADCHAN (Wedding Jester) REB AZRIEL (Town Magnate) HIS WIFE .................................. THE RABBI .............................. WHITE ANGEL ......................... DARK ANGEL ........................... JUDGE SUPERIOR ................... FIRST JUDGE ........................... SECOND JUDGE ....................... WHITE SCRIBE ........................ DARK SCRIBE .......................... WIDOW .....................................	ABRAHAM LAX MICHAEL GOLDSTEIN* GUSTAVE BERGER* YUDEL DUBINSKY* BERTA GERSTIN MAURICE SCHWARTZ SAM LEVINE CHARLES COHAN ISIDORE ELGART LENA MARCUS ABRAHAM TEITELBAUM LEON GOLD MENACHEM RUBIN VICTOR BERGMAN MORRIS BIELAWSKY MAX TANNENBAUM JACOB BRANDIS MAX ROSEN REBECCA WEINTRAUB		YOCHANAN (the water carrier) ............ SHACHNEH (Inn-Keeper) ....................... YACHNEH (His Wife) .............................. FIRST PEASANT ........................................ SECOND PEASANT .................................... THIRD PEASANT ...................................... GYPSY WOMAN ........................................ REB SHLOIME (Merchant) ..................... SHEINDELE ............................................... CHIEF OF POLICE ..................................... POLICE SERGEANT .................................. REB SHMUEL ............................................ DAVID (The Bridegroom) ....................... HERMAN SCHIKLHABER (Presiding Magistrate of Brandenburg) FIRST JUDGE ............................................ SECOND JUDGE ......................................... ROSELEIN ..................................................	ISADOR CASHIER MORRIS STRASSBERG CELIA PERARSON ISAAC ARCO HERMAN SEROTZKY LEIB KENIGSBERG JENNY CASHIER BORIS AUERBACH CHARLOTTE GOLDSTEIN MISCHA FISHSON SOLOMON KRAUSE MEYER SCHERR PAUL STEINER MORRIS STRASSBERG SOLOMON KRAUSE MORRIS BIELAWSKY MARIE GRUBER
			Wedding Guests, Dark and White Angels, Roumanian Peasants, Pilgrims to Palestine, Police, German Mob and Monks Portrayed by: Lisa Silbert, Ann Sytion, Goldie Lubritzky, Herman Serotzsky, Max Rosen, Paul Steiner, Sam Levin, Isadore Lash. Leib Konigsberg and Max Abblebaum. * -- Also portray musicians. Dancers: Nina Caiserman, Beatrice Weiseman, Lillian Walitzsky, and Lillian Zanor. Action takes place in the eastern part of Europe in the second half of the last century scene.

Action takes place in the eastern Part of Europe
in the second half of the last century scene.

PART ONE

Scene 1--In Front of Yoel's Home.
Scene 2--At a Wedding in Town.
Scene 3--In Yoel's Home.
Scene 4--Between Heaven and Earth.
Scene 5--In Heaven Before the Supreme Judges.

INTERMISSION 15 MINUTES

Scene 6--On Earth. Somewhere on a Road.
Scene 7--An Inn in a Roumanian Village.
Scene 8--Somewhere on the Road.
Scene 9--In Yoel's Home, During Passover.
Scene 10--In Brandenburg.
Scene 11--A Courtyard of the Magistrate in Brandenburg.
Scene 12--Betweeen Heaven and Earth.
Scene 13--In Heaven--Before the Supreme Judges.