Poetic Drama – Genres – Israeli Dramatists Website

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And the Rat Laughed (Nava Semel)

And the Rat Laughed is an original opera in Hebrew based on Nava Semel’s accliamed novel from 2001. The music was composed by Israeli comopser Ella Milch-Sheriff. This novel dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust and the influence of this harrowing chapter of human history was highly praised for its courage in employing original… Read more

The American Princess (Nissim Aloni)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama

The play takes place in an unnamed South American country. King Bonifacius Victor Felix of the House of Hohenschwaden, and his son, Crown Prince Ferdinand, flee their kingdom, Great Bogomania. There, in the old country, the father was the benevolent monarch. Today he calls himself Felix Van Shvank and barely makes a living giving French… Read more

The Gypsies of Jaffa (Nissim Aloni)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama

In the 1971 documentary ﬁlm on the making of the Gypsies of Jaﬀa, Nissim Aloni describes being interviewed by a French Canadian TV channel, in French. He goes on to tell how he answered all questions in ﬂuent French, up until the question: Monsieur Aloni, what is the story of your play? –Here, he says,… Read more

A 39-year-old daughter of Holocaust survivors enters her dead parents’ old apartment after a twenty-year absence. Engulfed by childhood memories, scenes come to life of herself as a fifteen-year old, her parents and her aunt, who was in love with her brother-in-law. Observing them from a distance and becoming aware of their tragic life, she… Read more