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Jewish Festival Theatre
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Comic and parodic theatre staged around a Jewish festival, kept alive as living communal custom rather than a fixed text: the Purim Spiel, performed on Purim itself and built around the license for inversion and mockery that marks the day. Belongs here: a performance work whose occasion and content grow directly out of a Jewish festival calendar. Does not belong here: any other devotional drama, however serious in tone, that does not stage a Jewish festival occasion.
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