Exagoge Trailer

From the livestream of the May 3 2024 performance at La MaMa ETC.

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.

Performers:
Zeke: Hershel Blatt
Pharoah, Reuel, God: Matthew Curran
Tzipporah, Messenger, God: Tharanga Goonetilleke
Aliya: Meena Knowles
Moses: James Rodgers
Avraham: Maxwell Zener

Puppeteers:
Rebecca Jay Caplan, Yanniv Frank, Parker Sera