Don't Look Back
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In this freestyle, sensual, ironic adaptation of the ancient Greek myth, Orpheus is a street musician collecting alms with his hapless father at the train station. Eurydice is an actress waiting for a train on her way to another performance. Love bursts out between them, inevitable as death and pitiless as life. Based on the play 'Eurydice' by Jean Anouilh, 'Don't Look Back' explores themes of love and suffering. This production, staged in Russian for the first time in 25 years, features veteran actors of Gesher Theater alongside famous newcomers who repatriated to Israel after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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