Farvorfen Vinkel to be performed at Sant Bani School

The Sant Bani School high school theatre production this December is a Yiddish drama entitled “Farvorfen Vinkel” (“In a Forgotten Corner”). Performances are at 7 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, December 17, 18 & 19. Admission is $4 and $2 for students and senior citizens. For reservations call the school at 934-4240. Tickets may also be available at the door.

Written in 1917 by Peretz Hirshbein and translated by David Lifson, this lively drama takes place in a tiny Jewish shtetl in Europe long ago. Two neighbors, a poor gravedigger and a miller who is slightly better off (sophomore Adison Lintner of Franklin and junior Marc Gonzalez of Plymouth, respectively), come into conflict which threatens to ruin both their families’ happiness.

The wives (freshmen Isabel Bogacz of Tilton and Jen Hammel of Bristol) try to bring common sense to the stubborn, feuding men, and of course the miller’s son and gravedigger’s daughter (freshmen Obie Dancewicz-Helmers of Hill and Emily Monfet of Laconia) are in love, against their families’ wishes.

The play is rich with emotion, classic sarcastic Yiddish humor, poignancy (a madwoman, played by senior Justine Borceux of Grapfontaine, Belgium) wanders the cemetery and intrudes on the action at odd moments); and a melee in which a window gets broken; but all ends happily, thanks to a most reasonable solution presented by kindly old Reb Todros (played by sophomore Andrés Orr of Sanbornton).