NIGHT STORIES, comprising four tales of reanimation by Yiddish poet and resistance fighter Avrom Sutzkever, will be presented Off-Broadway direct from a South American tour through São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. NIGHT STORIES makes its official Off-Broadway bow at Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd Street (between Aves. A & B), with performances beginning on Wednesday evening, December 17th and running through Sunday, January 11th.

When the sun sets, forgotten figures from the Holocaust emerge to invade the writer’s dreams and even assault his waking moments, settling old scores and seeking absolution as they describe their destruction and share the terrible secrets of their survival, all in Sutzkever’s haunting Yiddish with English supertitles. In Where the Stars Spend the Night, a survivor from the swamps begs the writer to forgive her for eating his soul. In A Child’s Hands, from the coldest of clues - handprints on a windowpane - the poet deduces the last moments of an unknown child and his grandmother. Lupus, a cyanide dealer from the killing fields, materializes from a mirror, demanding that the writer “unalive” him. (Yes, Sutzkever created the word 50 years before TikTok.) And concluding the evening with a spirit of grace, Portrait in Blue Sweater, a Chanukah story, is the true account of a lost portrait of the poet painted by a murdered artist which reappears to the surprise of everyone but Marc Chagall. NIGHT STORIES is additionally unique in its being the only run of a Yiddish language production in New York’s current season.

Starring Shane Baker and Miryem-Khaye Seigel*, NIGHT STORIES is directed by Moshe Yassur with Beate Hein Bennett. Original music is composed by Uri Schreter.

*At certain performances, the roles played by Miryem-Khaye Seigel will be played by Suzanne Toren: Dec 30; & Jan 6, 8, 9.