The Shadow of a Crib

by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author), Joan Silver (Author)

A one-act play based on the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Adapted by Joan Silver

“The Shadow of a Crib” was collected in his 1961 collection The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories—this one-act adaptation brings the tragicomic irony of the shtetl to life. Staged in March 1966 by the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland’s Performing Arts Department, it was adapted by Joan Silver, produced by Mark Feder, and directed by Dorothy Silver. The play was originally staged with a one-act adaptation of “The Man Who Came Back” and has been edited to be performed either as an evening of two one-acts or on its own.