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By day they work as laborers, storekeepers, and housepainters; by night they teach themselves the basics of acting and stagecraft from outdated Russian and German books. The only theater they can afford is a dilapidated former circus on the outskirts of Vilna, repurposed by the occupying German army as a military stable.
The roof leaks. The stage reeks of horse dung. It is a bitterly cold winter and since there is no money for heat, the actors rehearse with frozen limbs and thaw their stage makeup over the footlights. Within a few months, however, these same actors are performing in the most extravagant theater in their city, a building that has never before permitted Jews upon its stage.
Within a year, their company has become a household name across Eastern Europe. In less than a decade, they are a global sensation with a reputation that stretches across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Australasia, Africa, and beyond.
