Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish Interview with Director Eve Annenberg

Posted by admin on July 8, 2011 in Spotlight | ∞

We had the opportunity to sit down with Eve Annenberg director of Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish. The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now this gritty, funny new feature film retells William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” in Yiddish. A middle-aged ER nurse, Ava, in graduate school—and bitterly lapsed observant Jew—undertakes […]