This drama chronicles the lives of 5 teenage patients in an Adolescent Psychiatric Institution as they put on their own theatre play. It’s a window into the lives of doctors, patients, and parents – and inside their souls. But it’s also our story, because these kids – are a high volume version of us. Playwright… Read more
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
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Suitcase Packers is a dark comedy featuring six families, five lovers, three bachelorettes, nine dead, eight funerals, four widows, eleven suitcases, a baby, an American, a homosexual, a prostitute, a stutterer and a hunchback—all deeply unhappy. The play presents a tapestry of human relationships marked by disappointment, longing, and the search for meaning, revolving around… Read more
A “mikveh” is the ritual bath in which religious Jewish women (from wedding until menopause) immerse once a month, in order to purify themselves from the ‘impure blood’ and be once again permitted (physically) to their husbands. Mikveh is the physical space in which this play unfolds, but it is also the humane space deep… Read more
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
“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