Neil Armstrong

Raising the roof

As a new production opens at Liverpool Everyman, Neil Armstrong investigates the global appeal of this tale from the shtetl

issue 18 February 2017

It is a ‘fantastic night out’, insists the theatre’s artistic director. Gemma Bodinetz is right, of course, but it is easy to see how those unfamiliar with Fiddler on the Roof might take some convincing. The first act ends with a pogrom, the second with the village’s Jews being expelled from
the country.

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