Isaac Babel: The Musical?

How might the stories of a Jewish man, writing in
Russian, based in Odesa 100 years ago help us understand what’s
happening in Ukraine today? Join Dash Arts’ Artistic Director
Josephine Burton at the very start of an exploration into
bringing to the stage the life and work of Isaac Babel.


This episode catches up with Josephine as she gathers together
artists, writers, composers and translators to venture into
Babel’s turbulent life and rich writings. We uncover how having a
coffee with the artist and performer, Golda Amirova, sparked the
beginnings of a music theatre production about this prolific
writer Babel, born in today’s Ukraine. 


Translator of Babel’s Odessa Stories, Boris Dralyuk, shares
Babel’s brutal and beautiful Odesa as well as the contemporary
resonance of a violent era of early Soviet history through his
translation of Red Cavalry. Plus we eavesdrop on the rehearsal
room as Josephine pulls apart the imagery and possibilities that
can be found in  Babel’s work with composer Jonathan Walton
and playwright Mark Rosenblatt. 


We don’t know exactly how this will end, but this episode
uncovers how we’ve begun.


In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:


Boris Dralyuk - Poet and Translator


Golda Amirova - Artist


Jonathan Walton - Composer


Mark Rosenblatt - Director, Playwright and Screenwriter


Music : Леонид Утесов – Ты одессит, Мишка // Leonid Utyosov - You
are from Odessa, Mishka





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