Corona and the New Normal

Corona and the New Normal

See Yiddish Stars in Action!

YAAANA’s fourth year anniversary and fundraiser

A second staging of the experimental Zoom play “Korone un der nayer normal” (Corona and the New ‘Normal’), in 2021. See Yiddish STARS in action – Avi Hoffman starring as Corona, Suzanne Toren as the Internet, Sam Guncler as The Essential Worker, Bertolt Karsten Troyke as Twitter, Mikhl Yashinsky as Facebook, Lea Kalisch as Instagram, Moishele Mario Alfonso as Madame Netflix, and Lea Rozenfeld as Baby Tiktok. The performance was followed by a premiere of the 3D animation of the Yiddishland California project by Kendal Eastwood, featuring a brand new song by Psoy Korolenko.

 

See Yiddish Stars in Action!

YAAANA’s fourth year anniversary and fundraiser

A second staging of the experimental Zoom play “Korone un der nayer normal” (Corona and the New ‘Normal’), in 2021. See Yiddish STARS in action – Avi Hoffman starring as Corona, Suzanne Toren as the Internet, Sam Guncler as The Essential Worker, Bertolt Karsten Troyke as Twitter, Mikhl Yashinsky as Facebook, Lea Kalisch as Instagram, Moishele Mario Alfonso as Madame Netflix, and Lea Rozenfeld as Baby Tiktok. The performance was followed by a premiere of the 3D animation of the Yiddishland California project by Kendal Eastwood, featuring a brand new song by Psoy Korolenko.

 

a Zoom screen with ten participants, 8 of them are actors in costume, one says YAAANA and one says yugntruf: yugnt far yidish

History of Production

Collaborative adaptation of Leah K. Hofman’s “Kraft”

“Korone un der nayer normal” (Corona and the New ‘Normal’) was inspired by Leah K. Hoffman’s 1930 Kraft (Power). The script was adapted during Yidish vokh (Yiddish Week) 2020, by Jana Mazurkiewicz, Pam Singer, Stephen Ogin, Sasha Hoffman, Elena Ita Luchina, Suzanne Katchko, German Bernate Obando, and Tanya Yakovleva. A staged reading of the play was performed by the authors, co-produced by YAAANA and Yugntruf, and reviewed by Faith Jones for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.

 

History of Production

Collaborative adaptation of Leah K. Hofman’s “Kraft”

“Korone un der nayer normal” (Corona and the New ‘Normal’) was inspired by Leah K. Hoffman’s 1930 Kraft (Power). The script was adapted during Yidish vokh (Yiddish Week) 2020, by Jana Mazurkiewicz, Pam Singer, Stephen Ogin, Sasha Hoffman, Elena Ita Luchina, Suzanne Katchko, German Bernate Obando, and Tanya Yakovleva. A staged reading of the play was performed by the authors, co-produced by YAAANA and Yugntruf, and reviewed by Faith Jones for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.

 

a Zoom screen with ten participants, 8 of them are actors in costume, one says YAAANA and one says yugntruf: yugnt far yidish
a collage of 6 photos: in one, one person is reading and the other is typing on a computer, in the next a group of people are reading writing and talking in a library, in the third, one person is reading and the other two are listening, with bookshelves behind them; in the fourth, a group of people is standing in a circle, practicing theatrical movement, in the fifth 3 actors are on stage, smiling and clapping, in the sixth, 10 people are posing for a photo, with a portrait of I.L. Peretz hanging behind them.

A Special Thank-You!

To the Great Lakes Theatre Troupe

“Kraft” by Leah Kopelyovitsh Hofman was first translated as “Power” by the Great Lakes Yiddish Theatre Troupe in 2017, a collaborative translation between students and instructors from University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Toronto: Miriam Borden, Tyler Dolan, Beth Dwoskin, Sara Feldman, Leianna Xenia Hamel, Saul Hankin, Evan Heugel, Sasha Hoffman, Anna Kalimouline, Elena Lemeneva, Nadav Linial, Jessica Pollock, Vera Power, Anya Quilitzsch, Jennifer Schmitt, Ian Sone, and Hannah Werner.

 

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