The Haunted Inn

Haunted Inn, The (Di Puste Kretshme)

    Alternative Title: The Idle Inn

    Author: Pere(t)z Hirs(c)hbein

    First Performance: 1912, New York

    Published: 1914

    First English Translation: No pub. translation known

    Genre: Romantic com. in 4 acts; Yiddish prose

    Setting: Russian farmhouse and environs, c.1910

    Cast: 3m, 1f, extras

Meta is the daughter of a provincial horse trader, who has arranged for her to marry an unattractive individual, although she is in love with her tearaway cousin Itsik. Her father's wedding gift is an abandoned inn, which is supposed to be haunted. At the wedding, Itsik and Meta run away together, and the distraught father assumes that some passing merchants who have joined the wedding feast are in fact phantoms who have spirited Meta...

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