This double bill by Barry Dickins is a tribute to two real characters from his past, both of whom happen to be Jewish.
Hymie Slade was an artist and an eccentric.
Minnie Mankowitz was simply eccentric.
HYMIE/THE DEATH OF MINNIE gives us two more portraits in the now well-known Dickins collection of sad, poor, rejected lonely and unfashionable down-and-outs who people his city of Melbourne.