Kaddish (How to be a Sanctuary)

Self Friend Productions in collaboration with Purp Door Productionz (USA)

 

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Care to learn how to curse in Yiddish and witness a reckoning between a Jewish grandson going to do solidarity work in Palestine and his long-passed on grandfather who fought the Nazis in World War II? “Kaddish (how to be a sanctury)” premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025 was met with the prestigious Bobby Award by Broadway Baby who praised its “profound writing, imaginative staging and precise direction” and its “[invitation] to listen to the moral inheritance of our ancestors.” The play uses the real archival journals of playwright/performer Sam’s grandpa Saul N. Sherman - a Jewish WWII vet from New Jersey and intersperses it with Sam’s own writing.  Sam and his dead grandpa have a conversation about everything from resisting fascism to growing up with mobsters - all with the help of a mystical creature from Yiddish folklore.