Tsvey Brider: Café Cosmopole
Aug 12 Mon 8 p.m. @OMA
Admission: 20 € / 11 €
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Writers, poets, artists, poseurs. Communists, Socialists, Zionists, Bundists. Emigrés, habitués, bohemians, cosmopolites. Critics, hacks, scribblers, gossip-mongers. Yeshiva dropouts, shtetl burnouts, circus entertainers, cabaret artists. Between worlds and between wars. Café Cosmopole is a musical theatre pastiche with original music by the Yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider, set to the texts of an international group of 20th-century Yiddish poets and writers. Set in the interwar café scenes of Berlin, Odessa, and Warsaw, the piece explores the lives and thoughts of the denizens of these cafés.
Line up:
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell (USA) - voice
Dmitri Gaskin (USA) - accordion, piano, synthesizers