A play in germany (Roey Maliach-Reshef)
Genre: Absurd , New Writing
Posts Tagged: Absurd
Hokey-Pokey (Eyal Weiser)
A failing writer who dreams of success; an actress past her prime desperate for the limelight again; a therapist having a secret affair with Hitler, a clown whose identity was stolen; a paraplegic who dreams of long legs and an Arab girl who dreams of being more than just another Arab. A patchwork of stories… Read more
The Spotted Tiger (Yaakov Shabtai)
Paradox (Sharon Stark)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Psychological Drama , Thriller-Horror , Comedy
Prof. Reuben Nimrodi, the charismatic head of the Philosophy Department, wins a much desired position and leaves suddenly for Harvard University. His absence forces Yonat, his devoted yet neurotic assistant, to face a class for the first time in her life, and teach Deconstruction theory. How will Yonat survive the class? Why did she invite… Read more
Smiley (Eyal Weiser)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , New Writing , Satire , Drama
Set in a new age empowerment workshop, Smiley , is a series of sexually-charged monologues that also transforms into an interactive experience with the audience. Each character reveals the lives of young adults – exposing their lives on the internet, in bars or inside themselves – struggling with situations, emotions and identities from which you,… Read more
Alice (Roy Chen)
Genre: Absurd , Psychological Drama
Shade (Shay Azoulay)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama
A mundane argument between two neighbors regarding a tree and the shade that it casts becomes an absurd struggle involving neighborly relations and responsibility, justice and punishment, inspiration and humiliation.
The executer and the condemned to death (Efrat Steinlauf)
Genre: Absurd , Short Play , Short Play
The play “The Executioner and the Condemned to Death” presents a charged encounter between an executioner and the man he is about to kill, in the final hours before the execution. Through a series of sharp, often darkly comic dialogues, the two men argue about guilt, justice, fate, and the machinery of the state that… Read more
manimamama (Joshua Sobol)
Genre: Absurd
A little man that sleeps on his mother’s grave, confronts a giant bully, who aims to dispossess him off it under the management of a procuress.
Mountain (Yaron Edelstein)
Genre: Absurd , Fantasy , Poetic Drama , Tragedy
Five soldiers are trapped in an endless war. They keep coming back to the starting point where they are asked to go into battle to protect their land, and each time the level of sacrifice demanded of them rises. From this nightmarish trap a hero emerges – Mountain – whose character encompasses the promise of… Read more