Jehu (Gilad Evron)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play
Posts Tagged: Historical Play
Kastner (Motti Lerner)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play
A political/historical drama about the tragic negotiations conducted by the Jewish community in Hungary during World War II with Adolph Eichmann, head of the Gestapo unit 4-B on rescuing the remains of European Jewry. Winner of “Play of The Year” award (1985) The play was published in English in the anthology “Israeli Holocaust Drama” edited by… Read more
Will the Two Walk Together (A. B. Yehoshua)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play , Periodical Drama
In 1934 a series of secret meetings was held in London between two bitter adversaries in the Zionist movement: from the Left, David Ben-Gurion, and from the Right, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the revered Revisionist movement leader. The aim of the meetings was reconciliation between the two rival movements, preventing the secession of Jabotinsky’s movement from the… Read more
The Banality of Love (Savyon Liebrecht)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play
The complex relationship between Hanna Arendt and Martin Heidegger, from their first encounter as student and teacher in 1924 to their meeting after the war in 1950. Their story raises ethical questions about how politics and philosophy relate to real life. In the background is the one-sided love affair between German Jews and the German… Read more