New on Scenesaver: staged reading of a new play – Steinberg V Steinberg written by Annelise Bianchini, directed by Scott Le Crass.
NYC, 1980s. Two estranged sisters—one a hard-edged lawyer, the other a law school dropout—reunite to stage a mock trial for their dying mother. The charge? Complicity in their father’s abuse. As they argue the case, long-buried memories resurface, and blame, truth, and love blur into each other.
But something else is present in the room. A Dybbuk—a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore—hovers just beyond sight, feeding off their grief and rage.
As the night unfolds, what begins as a battle for justice becomes a reckoning with the past—and each other.
Steinberg v. Steinberg is a gripping, psychologically charged play about family, trauma, silence, accountability, women’s rights, and the impossible mess of healing. It asks: when the truth is unbearable, how do we carry it?
The project explores how inherited trauma affects individuals, families, and communities, especially women.
By blending intimate drama, folklore, and puppetry, this piece offers fresh insight into the ways history can echo in the present.