The Goldberg Variations by George Tabori
The director Mr. Jay wants to bring the Old Testament to the stage as a big show. The only problem is that, apart from his assistant director Goldberg, nobody really wants to listen to him, and he has a mind of his own. So everything goes wrong during rehearsals. The technical departments fail to do their jobs and the actors, who can't follow Jay's search for truthfulness, only see him as a tyrant. They know everything better, especially Terese Tormentina, the superstar of the production and the director's beloved. She refuses to play Eva naked and coldly rebuffs Jay's advances. No matter how godlike he feels in the role of the director, he makes a fool of himself in front of her.
The theater is a mess. Yet it is all about the milestones in human history: the expulsion from paradise, the first murder, the proclamation of the Ten Commandments, etc. etc. In the middle of it all: a God who tries to bring order to the chaos and convert his people to faith. In the futile rehearsal of creation, the stage becomes a mirror of the world and all its shortcomings.
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