The Yiddish State Theater of Warsaw will make a visit to Israel and to the United States this year, Ida Kaminska, the noted actress and director of the theater, disclosed in an interview with the Folkstimme, the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper.
She said that the theater troupe also had been invited to perform in France, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. However, she added, with such tours as those of the United States and Israel scheduled, no time would be available this year for other tours. She stressed that the troupe felt its main duty was to perform in Poland and to meet the needs of the Polish Jewish population as well as those of Polish non-Jews who valued the Yiddish state theater.
Miss Kaminska said that 1966 had been a successful year not only artistically but also financially with more persons seeing the performances of the Yiddish State Theater than had been anticipated at the start of the year. She said the troupe had made more provincial tours and managed to visit small towns, some of them without any Jewish residents, but they played to full houses everywhere. The troupe will move into its new building this year, an ultra-modern theater built by the Polish Government especially for the Yiddish State Theater.
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