Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends

for (Regina, Rosa, Ruth and Rachel)

5786/2026

“Tonight I will also attempt to puzzle out what, in essence, is poetry. To me it seems that it is a magical transporter through time and space because it manages to contain the present, the past, even the future. […] Often the poet will take faded words, lying forgotten and cobwebbed. He shakes off their dust, collected over generations, and marries them off to new images. He conducts them to a new breyshis, a second genesis.”
(Rokhl Korn)

for (Regina, Rosa, Ruth & Rachel) is a musical and scenic collage inspired by and performed in the Festsaal of Sophiensæle.

DATES
2026
May 8th -10th Sophiensaele Berlin 

Artistic direction: Ariel Efraim Ashbel & Rachel Libeskind
Performance: Maya Dunietz, Jessica Gadani, Lori Goldston, Rachel Libeskind
Musical direction: Maya Dunietz
Live painting: Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson
Light design: Joseph Wegmann
costumes: Sandra Fink
Graphic designer: Shir Shoval-Simhoni
Production assistant: Dan Immanuel Roth
Dramaturgy and directing assistant: Katharina Joy Book
Yiddish translation: Guli Dolev-Hashiloni
Social media: Yulia Prudnikova / monopurple design&audio
Creative producer: Anna von Glasenapp / high expectations
Thank you: producer Adi Nachman, Johannes Ruehle, Casa di Rosa, Lucian Loyvé