Comedy – Genres – Israeli Dramatists Website

Love for a Penny (A Libe Far A Grashn) (Joshua Sobol)

An actress, an immigrant from Russia, saves a theater from bankruptcy with the help from her father, who smuggles atomic detonatoras. The play was written in Yiddish.

Schneider and Schuster (Joshua Sobol)

Genre: Absurd , Comedy

Two Jewish comedians survive the 20th century hardships, in order to die of gorging in a luxury restaurant.

PFFFFFF (Yaron Edelstein)

Genre: Black Comedy , Farce , Satire

PFFFFFF is a dark farce that tells the story of the Dolphin submarine, floating somewhere in the depths of the Persian Gulf. Its commander has decided to take matters into his own hands and to once and for all bring peace to the Middle East. Meanwhile, Israel’s top politicians and security personnel gather in a… Read more

The Orchard (Yosef Bar-Yosef)

Genre: Comedy , Drama

Ida, a Russian ballet teacher, steps into the beautiful orchard of Menashe Sirkman, an embittered widower. The orchard – full of fragrances and beauty – reminds her of romantic dreams she had long forgotten after her immigration to Israel. The delicate, unexpected love story between Ida and Menashe arouses the jealousy of his wicked brother… Read more

Sharon Semo the killer (Gur Koren)

Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama , Fantasy , New Writing

A playwright arrives at the prison cell of the prime minister’s killer and tells him the story of Sharon Samo, a good boy who falls in love with a flower and even kills for her in far away India. The dialogue between the playwright and the murderer takes place at the same time as the… Read more

SHOOT THE HEAD (Gur Koren)

Genre: Black Comedy , Comedy , Comic Drama , Drama , Fantasy , New Writing , Short Play

An artist writes his first play about a country where, for one month every ten years, the blood of the leader is allowed to anyone who wants to replace it The artist’s marital and love life mix in “the play he writes until he loses the boundaries between them