Hershel & the Hanukkah Goblins
Strawdog Theatre, 2021
Adapted by Michael Dailey from the book by Eric Kimmel
Directed by Hannah Todd
Assistant-Directed by Sophia Sinsheimer
Featuring Morgan Lavenstein, Charlie Baker, Amy Gorelow, LaKecia Harris, Rebecca Marowitz and Christopher Thomas Pow
Hershel and the Hannukah Goblins is Strawdog Theatre’s holiday tradition. The story follows a traveling theater troupe that hasn’t eaten for days and whose actors are desperate to find a place that will take them in. On the first night of Hanukkah, the quirky band of actors comes across a town and they look to trade a story for food and shelter. That story, “Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins,” tells the tale of Hershel as he spends Hanukkah outsmarting a series of goblins that have been haunting a town’s synagogue, preventing the town’s residents from celebrating Hanukkah.
