Editing Vilna Troupe (section)

==Return to Poland==
After the financial failure of the society that supported ''Dramă şi Comedie'', the troupe returned to calling itself the Vilna Troupe, continuing at first in Bucharest, where Joseph Buloff directed his adaptation of "Shabtsi Tsvi" (Sabbatai Zevi; based on Sholem Asch's play of the same title and [[Jerzy Żuławski]]'s ''The End of the Messiah''), and then embarking on a tour of the Romanian provinces.<ref name="Zylbercweig-VilnerTrupe">Zylberzweig, Zalmen (ed.). "[https://archive.org/stream/nybc201089#page/n369/mode/1up Vilner trupe]" (in Yiddish). ''Leksikon fun yidishn teater''. Vol. 1. New York: Elisheva, 1931. cols. 704-717; here: 711-712.</ref> In mid 1926 Buloff and Luba Kadison left the troupe and, at the invitation of [[Maurice Schwartz]],  emigrated to the United States, where they joined Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre in New York.<ref>Zylberzweig, Zalmen (ed.). "[https://archive.org/details/nybc201089/page/n92/mode/2up Bulov (Bulkin), Yoysef]." ''Leksikon fun yidishn teater'' (in Yiddish). Vol. 1. New York: Elisheva, 1931. cols. 151-152.</ref> The rest of the troupe returned to Bucharest, and then went to Cernăuți (Czernowitz; Chernivtsi), where A. Stein directed a production of [[Leonid Andreyev]]'s play "Der gedank" (Thought).<ref name="Zylbercweig-VilnerTrupe"/>  

Shortly later Stein and other members left the troupe, and the remaining members returned to Poland, where they first toured the Galician provinces, then settled for a time in [[Lviv|Lwów]] (Lemberg; Lviv, Ukraine), in 1927. The troupe at this time consisted of Miriam Orleska, Chava Eisen, Chaim Brakarz, David Herman, [[Rachel Holzer]], Haber, Jacob and Yokheved Waislitz, Simkhe Weinstock, M. Mazo, Abraham Morewski, Naomi and Simkhe Nathan, Joseph Kamen, and Nadia Kareni.<ref name="Zylbercweig-VilnerTrupe"/> In Lwów David Herman staged and directed Jacob Preger's ''Der nisoyen'' (The Temptation), in August 1927; and in October, "Yehudis un Holofernes", a Yiddish adaptation of [[Christian Friedrich Hebbel|Friedrich Hebbel]]'s ''[[Judith (Hebbel)|Judith]]''.<ref name="Zylbercweig-VilnerTrupe"/> 

The troupe then traveled to Kraków, and finally to Warsaw, where they began performing at the Elysium Theater on 22 March 1928, with the following actors: Miriam Orleska, Dovid Birnboym, Helena Gotlib, Esther Goldenberg, Zalmen Hirshfeld, Jacob Waislitz, Ruth Taru, David Licht, Yankev Mansdorf, Naomi and Simkhe Nathan, A. Samberg, Joseph Kamen and Dina Koenig (Kamen), Yankev Kurlender, Batsheva Kremer, Esther Rappel, Perl Ruth, and Shmuel Sheftel.<ref name="Zylbercweig-VilnerTrupe"/> In May 1928 Michael Weichert staged and directed an epic production of Sholem Asch's ''Kidesh hashem'', with set designs by Władysław Weintraub and music by [[Henech Kon]]; hugely popular with audiences, it was performed about 250 times.<ref>Mickutė, Jolanta, "The Vilner Trupe, 1916–30: A Transformation of Shund Theater—For the Sake of National Politics or High Art?" ''Jewish Social Studies'', Vol. 22, No. 3 (Spring/Summer 2017), pp. 98-135; here: 118.</ref> In October of the same year, David Herman staged and directed [[Isaac Leib Peretz|I. L. Peretz]]'s ''Bay nakht afn altn mark'' (At Night in the Old Marketplace), with stage design by Weintraub, music by Joseph Kaminski, and choreography by Leah Rotbaum.<ref name="Zylbercweig-VilnerTrupe"/>