Yentl Comes to the Marylebone Theatre
If you think you know Yentl from the soupy 1983 Barbra Streisand musical movie, think again, because the Australian version of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story, which arrives at Marylebone Theatre this week, trailing awards and a string of ecstatic five-star reviews, offers a startlingly modern take on the story of the girl living in 19th-century Poland. Yentl yearns to do the things men are allowed to do and so disguises herself as a boy in a quest for knowledge and self-discovery.