Dybbuk - Rassegna stampa

Anime in scena, per non dimenticare( Souls on stage, to remember)

by Ugo Ronfani

Il Giorno - 18 March, 1995

Milano – In 1945, after the end of the war, at a Café in Vienna a Jewish customer requests the "Völkischer Beobachter", the newspaper of Hitler's Nazi Party. The waiter tells him that the newspaper no longer exists. But the next day, the same customer asks for it again, and continues to ask for it everyday for the following two weeks. In the end, the waiter says: "Excuse me, sir, why do you keep requesting the"Völkischer Beobachter" every day, when I keep telling you it no longer exists?" And the answer is: "Exactly, just to hear you repeat that it exists no more"...

“Dybbuk”, voci yiddish lontane sempre presenti (Dybbuk", far away Yiddish voices, always present)

by Oliviero Ponte Di Pino

il manifesto - 24 March, 1995

As the century is coming to a close – a century which is stained with the worse mass murders in history, and which is ending with other massacres of innocents, from Sarayevo to Rwanda, from Algeria to Chiapas, and, starting tomorrow, in other places – two painful theatrical anti-utopias assume an even greater importance: the one described by Jean Genet in his essay "The strange word of...", where he imagined performing in cementeries, and the one theorized and practiced byTadeusz Kantor in his "Theatre of Death". From these visions, and from a reflection on the possibility of poetry and the concept of God after Auschwitz, has Moni Ovadia (in collaboration with Mara Cantoni) drawn in order to arrive at Dybbuk...

L’orchestra della Storia - (The orchestra of History)

by Maria Grazia Gregori

L'Unità - 18 March, 1995

For memory, but far from an ideology of death. Moni Ovadia is having a great success at the Franco Parenti with his "Dybbuk", a re-writing of past and present inspired not only by An-ski's Yiddish classic which gives the piece its name, but also by "The Song of the Murdered Jewish People" by Yitzchak Katzenelson, an epic poem in 15 cantos about the massacre of the eastern European Jews...

Sposi per lo sterminio (Newlyweds for extermination)

by Franco Quadri

La Repubblica - 4 April, 1995

Moni Ovadia continues his revisitation of the Yiddish theatre in a personal style and, with his magnificent TheaterOrchestra, now he passes from the entertainment of the Cabaret to the grand Requiem...

L’Olocausto urla ancora (The Holocaust cries out again)
by Osvaldo Gurrieri

La Stampa - 9 April, 1995

It won't be easy to forget the "Dybbuk" which Moni Ovadia is presenting at the Franco Parenti Theatre in Milan. Rarely have we been present at a theatrical rite so mysterious and necessary, so strongly felt and heart-rending, so much so as to believe we have ended up not within the fascinations of a scenic invention, but within the heart of History's longest tragedy...

La memoria tagliente di Moni (The sharp memory of Moni Ovadia)
by David Gianetti

di David Gianetti
La Voce - 18 March, 1995

"Remember not to forget" is written on the questionaire which was distributed in the lobby of the Franco Parenti Theatre, for the creation of a Jewish Holocaust Museum in Milan. And memory is the inspirating theme of "Dybbuk", Moni Ovadia's and Mara Cantoni's latest theatrical creation...

Le anime di milioni di vittime tornano a cantare l’indicibile (The souls of millions of victims return to sing the unsayable)
by Giovanni Raboni

Il Corriere della Sera - 18 March, 1995

One thing is clear: the "Dybbuk" by Moni Ovadia and Mara Cantoni is not made for those who think that it is possible or even desirable to forget what happened in Europe half a century ago. Then again, maybe it's made exactly for them, in the same way as remorse is for the guilty and justice for the unjust...