Posts Tagged: United States

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

Suspended (Maya Arad Yasur)

Genre: Drama

Two window cleaners, both refugees from civil war, hang on abseil cables outside of a skyscraper. They have got a job to do and have agreed not to talk about the past. While cleaning the windows, they follow the inaccessible world of well-heeled Western business people. Through a visual metaphor, this play explores concepts as… Read more

Mikveh (Hadar Lee Galron)

Genre: Comic Drama , Drama , Psychological Drama

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