page_title: Hanna Rovina
section_title: Acting career
hierarchical_section_title: Hanna Rovina / Acting career
caption_attribution_description: Hanna Rovina's room in Habima National Theatre. The white dress is her costume in the w:The Dybbuk. he:קטגוריה:חנה רובינא he:קטגוריה:הבימה
context_page_description: Hanna Rovina, also Robina, was an Israeli actress. She is often referred to as the "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre".
context_section_description: She began her acting career at the "Hebrew Stage Theatre" of Nahum Tzemach. She joined Habima theatre in 1917 just as it was being launched, and participated in its first production, a play by Yevgeny Vakhtangov. She became famous for her role as Leah'le, the young bride who is possessed by a demon in The Dybbuk by S. Ansky.
  In 1928, Rovina and the other actors of Habima immigrated to Mandate Palestine. Habima became the flagship of the new national theatre movement, and Rovina was recognized as the movement's leading actress. The image of Rovina in her role as Leah in the Moscow performance of The Dybbuk, in a white dress, with her long black braid, became an icon of the emergent Hebrew theatre.
  Rovina took her acting  very seriously and tried to live the life of the character, as prescribed by the Stanislavski School.
  Nisim Aloni wrote a play, Aunt Liza, especially for her and Rovina played the lead.
  Rovina made high demands of her audience. She frequently stopped a play in the middle if she felt that the audience was not attentive enough. In one instance, she stopped the play Hannah Senesh in the middle of a  scene and told the teenagers in the hall to stop eating sunflower seeds.
caption: Rovina's dressing room at Habima Theatre
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