Abstract
The Moscow Art Theater was by no means Jewish institution. It had been founded in 1898 by the textile millionaire Konstantin Alekseev who acted under the name Stanislavsky and the playwright and pedagogue Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. The discrepancy in interpretation led to arguments, and in rehearsals the playwright almost came to blows with the director. Andreev had intended the play as the third in series of philosophical dramas; the basic anecdote had occurred to him when he observed in Southern Russia the funeral of rich and benevolent Jew accompanied by cortege of beggars. Anathema a tragic spectacle in seven tableauxdescribes as metaphysical disquisition on God's silence disguised as recognizable reality, in the style of Ibsen's Brand. The style of The Dybbuk, which would become Habima's house style, had its origins in these short-lived productions of the Moscow Art Theater. Keywords:Anathema; Andreev; interpretation; moscow art theater
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