Exagoge On Demand

From the May 3 performance at La MaMa ETC. Filmed by Pearse Redmond.

Music by Avner Finberg
Play/Libretto/Direction by Edward Einhorn
based on the 2nd Century BCE play by Ezekiel the Tragedian

An immersive opera/play/Passover seder, based on the oldest known Jewish play, written in Alexandria in the second century BCE by Ezekiel the Tragedian. The audience gathers round the seder table or watches from the risers, joining the performers for a traditional 15-part modern seder. An opera composer, Zeke, has brought home his girlfriend Aliya, a non-practicing Muslim, for the first time. Meanwhile, in the middle of it all, opera performers sing an adaptation of the ancient Greek interpretation of the Book of Exodus.

With: Hershel Blatt, Rebecca Jay Caplan, Matthew Curran, Yanniv Frank, Tharanga Goonetilleke, Meena Knowles, James Benjamin Rodgers, Parker Sera, Maxwell Zener