The one essential of any theatrical production is its telling a good story. Doing exactly that, and succeeding wonderfully at it, is the Congress for Jewish Culture’s all-new dramatization of Itzik Manger’s 1965 production, “Megillah Cycle”; it’s now available for streaming.
Billed as a modernist take on the traditional Purim play, it recounts a tale of deliverance for the Jewish people. This tale “of heroes and villains, of sorrows and glory,” takes place in a land ruled by King Ahasuerus (Mike Burstyn), a drunken fool.
