Posts Tagged: Rumania

repertory theatre (אלדד כהן)

Genre: Absurd , Comedy , New Writing

A young timid playwright is invited by a neurotic, Hamlet-obsessed national theatre manager to discuss his debut play. When art meets production value things are never easy, but nothing on God’s green earth could prepare this young man for the zany ride he is about to take. As it turns out the artistic director has… Read more

Eichmann’s Trial (מוטי לרנר)

Genre: Drama

The play deals with the trial of Adolf Eichmann held in Israel in 1961, and it reveals the pressures that the German government exerted on the Israeli government, and subsequently the pressures that the Israeli government exerted on the prosecutor Gideon Hausner during the trial.

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

Suitcase Packers (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Absurd , Comedy , Comic Drama , Poetic Drama

אורזי המזוודות

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

Krum (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama , Poetic Drama

Krum has returned from abroad to his dreary Tel Aviv neighborhood, the same dreary loser as when he left it. He has brought nothing, earned nothing, learned nothing. Wherever life happens, it’s not where he is.