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In 1905 he
played second
lover in
Krylov’s
troupe in
Rostov where
he played
with actors
Yurenieva,
Paschalova,
Michaelov
and Dvinsky. Participating
in
the Jewish
anti-pogrom
self-defense,
forced him
to leave the
troupe. |
After a
short
acting
period
at
Nikolayev,
then in
Baku,
Kiev and
Moscow,
S.
toured
with
Savina all
over
Russia.
Next S.
became
director
in
Stavropol,
then
acted in
Rostov,
Irkutsk,
Vilna,
Orienburg
,
Simbirsk,
Yekaterinburg,
Voronezh,
Odessa,
Rostov,
Yekaterinograd,
Yaroslavl,
Moscow
(two
years at
the
Young
Artists
Theatre
with
Tychomirov
as stage
director),
then in
Kiev,
Minsk
and with
part of
the
troupe
in Vilna
and
Białystok
where he
received
an
invitation
to join
the
Vilna
Troupe
in
Warsaw
to act
as well
as
direct
in
Yiddish.
He and
his wife
Esther
Orzhevskaya
acted in
Yiddish
in 1919
in
Strindberg’s
“The
Father”
in
Warsaw,
then
performed in
Chekhov’s
“Uncle
Vanya” (
for the
first
time on
the
Yiddish
stage)
and in
Surgutchov’s
“ Harbst
fidlen
(Autumn
Violins)”.
Next he
went on
a tour
of
Poland
and
Lithuania
and left
for
America
where he
acted in
1922-3
at the
Yiddish
Art
Theatre.
On
1 May
1922 he
acted in
Chekhov’s
“Uncle Vanya”
as well
as in a
dramatization
of
Andreyev’s
“The
Seven
Who Were
Hanged”. Next
S.
played
in small
troupes
(Yiddish
or
Russian)
touring America
in the
New York
and
Philadelphia
area. In
1926-7
he was
engaged
by the
Irving
Place
[Jewish] Art
Theatre
(with
Ben-Ami)
where he
was also
a member
of the
Stage
Directors Association
and
produced
a
dramatized
version
of
Dostoevsky’s
“The
Idiot”.
In 1928,
S.
visited
the
Soviet
Union
where he
acquired
the
right to
represent
a few
Russian
plays
and
productions.
In 1929,
for a
short
while,
S. acted
on the
English
stage in
America.
1930-31
he was at the
Art
Theatre
Ensemble.
where he
directed
(with
Jacob Mestel) V. Ivanov’s
“Armored
Train
[No.
1469]”.
M. E.
Sh. E.
with
Jacob
Mestel
-
Hillel
Rogoff-
Chekhov’s
masterpiece
“Uncle
Vanya” ,
for the
first
time on
the
Yiddish
stage, “Forward”,
N.Y. 3
May,
1922.
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