“More than a hundred years ago, in Russia, on the border with Poland, in a village so small that it is not shown on any map, there lived a teacher. His name was Mendel Singer. He was an insignificant man. He was devoted to the Lord. He taught the Bible to children, as his father had done before him. He taught with great passion and little success. A stupid teacher of stupid children: that is what his wife Deborah thought of him.”
Thus begins this story, which spans thirty years of life of the family of Mendel Singer, his wife Deborah and his four children. Roberto Anglisani gives voice to all the thoughts of the protagonists, to their fears, hopes and desperation, to prayers and revolts. “Job” – a perfect novel by Joseph Roth – thus becomes a tragicomic theatrical story just like life, where people laugh and cry, pray and dance, leave, arrive and return, die in war and are reborn.
Winning show of the “Teatri del sacro” 2017
