Posts Tagged: France

The Labor of Life (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Drama

Yona Popukh, waking up beside his wife Leviva in the middle of the night, realizes he is tired of his life and decides to leave home in search of a better life—and perhaps new love. He quarrels with Leviva, questions the meaning of his life, and is joined by Gunkel, a hypochondriac friend whose own… Read more

AMSTERDAM (Maya Arad Yasur)

Genre: A-genre

Winner of Berliner TheaterTreffen Stückemarkt 2018 In a highly fragmented, multi-narrated structure, the play AMSTERDAM unfolds the course of 24 hours in the life of a 9 months pregnant Israeli violinist living in Amsterdam, the day she wakes up and finds an unpaid gas bill from 1944 on her doorstep. The multiple speakers accompany the absent character throughout… Read more

The Child Dreams (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Drama

A modern theatrical fable, loosely inspired by real historical events, that follows the traumatic journey of a mother and her son as they try to escape oppression, seek shelter and survive in a world torn by cruelty, indifference, and death. Through dreamlike and poetic language, the play reflects on the fate of refugees and the… Read more