Care to learn how to curse in Yiddish and witness a reckoning between a Jewish grandson going to do solidarity work in Palestine and his long-passed on grandfather who fought the Nazis in World War II? The play uses the real archival journals of playwright/performer Sam’s grandpa Saul N. Sherman – a Jewish WWII vet from New Jersey and intersperses it with Sam’s own writing. Sam and his dead grandpa have a conversation about everything from resisting fascism to growing up with mobsters – all with the help of a mystical creature from Yiddish folklore.
kaddish (how to be a sanctuary) premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2025 and was met with the prestigious Bobby Award by Broadway Baby who praised its “profound writing, imaginative staging and precise direction” and its “[invitation] to listen to the moral inheritance of our ancestors.”
Written and performed by Sam Sherman
Directed and co-created by Lila Weitzner
Producer Team: Thomas Walter Booker of Purp Door Productionz, Sonja Dighe, Noah Weitzner, Gabriel Speechly and Tierra Burked
Ticket Information
Performance Dates: 19th – 23rd May 2026
Performance Time: 7pm
Run Time: 60 mins
Tickets: £19.50 / £17.50 (includes booking fee)