Posts Tagged: German

Wall of glass (Oren Yaacobi)

Genre: Black Comedy , Comic Drama , New Writing

English translation: Hadar Galron A successful young Israeli dancer who lives in Berlin suffers a crisis of identity and career when she discovers she is pregnant. The young woman has severed all contact with her mother and younger brother due to her decision to live in Berlin in spite of the objections of her mother,… Read more

Autumn (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama , Psychological Drama

A drama about a doctor who immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1896 to become a farmer. After 30 years he doesn’t feel rooted at home, and wants to begin a new life. He falls in love with his former lover’s daughter, but is caught by his wife and children who kill him to stop the… Read more

Between Two Worlds (Sara von Schwarze)

Genre: Drama

 Summary 73-year-old Abraham, a well-respected congregant of Munich’s Jewish community, is to be honoured with an official birthday ceremony, when the night before an unexpected guest appears at his and his (significantly younger) long-term partner Sabine’s apartment: Totally unexpected Ruth, Abraham’s grown-up daughter, shows up . We realize Abraham hadn’t seen her for years. Ruth… Read more

Hard Love (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama

A play about a secular writer and his ultra-Orthodox ex-wife who are trying to re-marry after twenty years of divorce, but discover that they have changed so much that living together is impossible.

And the Rat Laughed (Nava Semel)

Genre: Drama , Fantasy , Poetic Drama

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

Oh God (Anat Gov)

Genre: Comic Drama , Fantasy

In this witty, poignant and touching play, a psychotherapist named Ella, single mother of an autistic child, gets a visit from a new, desperate patient, God.

Happy Ending (Anat Gov)

Genre: Comedy , Fantasy , Musical

“To be or not to be. That is not the question. The question is how to be”. A new patient, Talia Roth, a theatre star in her late forties, arrives at an oncology clinic to begin a series of treatments in order to prolong her life. The encounter with the other women patients at the… Read more

The Child behind the Eyes (Nava Semel)

Genre: Monodrama

The Monodrama The Child Behind the Eyes tells the story of a mother of a Down’s syndrome child on the night before he goes to school. Not everyone is willing to make an effort and see Yotam beyond the special facial features. There are those who cross to the other side of the street, and… Read more