an absurd one-act play focusing on a seemingly ordinary family situation: the parents informing their children that they are separating. The play is narrated by the son
family excerisize (אלדד כהן)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , New Writing
Posts Tagged: Comic Drama
all aboard (אלדד כהן)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Drama , Poetic Drama
The play is a poetic comedy about a family on a train with quite a few communication problems, fleeing their homeland. The parents make all the possible mistakes in trying to break the bad news to their daughter, who for her part only talks to strangers. The train travels, passes cities and countries. No one… Read more
Till Death Unites Us’ (נועה לזר קינן)
Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama , Romantic Comedy
Here’s the translation: Avigail is a widow far too young—she’s not even forty yet. On the anniversary of her husband’s death, she meets Tomer, his best friend, through whom she discovers that her late husband left her a very unusual will. Before his death, he identified three potential men in an attempt to ensure she’d… Read more
Bertod and Agnes (נועה לזר קינן)
Genre: Comic Drama , Drama , Psychological Drama
Bertod and Agnes are getting ready to leave the house for a Rosh Hashanah dinner at their daughter’s home. Bertod is eager to leave, but Agnes is stalling—she doesn’t quite remember why they’re going out, where she put the chopped liver, or why her sister, who passed away three years ago, isn’t coming Agnes’s faltering… Read more
Ketzer- short circuit (נועה לזר קינן)
Genre: Comic Drama
In the middle of the day, Dado, a successful children’s author, receives a message from Nati, his wife, saying she won’t be coming back today. Very uncharacteristic of Nati. Nati, who never forgets anything, who has a lid for every plastic container, the one who runs the household, him, and the kids—she’s not someone who… Read more
What’s wrong with the world (Gur Koren)
Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama
A Sentimental comedy Raziya, a seventy-year-old woman who lives on a moshav, and whose dream is basically to have another grandson or two, embarks on a mission to save her son’s marriage, after he leaves home following a bitter argument with his wife. She drags her husband Yitzhakal’e along on a crazy adventure of two innocent moshav dwellers… Read more
Love (גדי צדקה)
Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama , Romantic Comedy
“Love” is a delightful comedy that takes us into the lives of Mary and Albert, two widowed seniors navigating the complexities of life, love, and companionship. After the passing of their respective spouses, they find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways. As they reminisce about the past and confront their loneliness, humor and heartache intertwine… Read more
What Really Matters (אלי חביב)
Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama , Psychological Drama , Tragedy , Drama , Poetic Drama
A young couple who take over an old man’s apartment, two soldiers in a tent the night before a war and a magician who comes to a married couple’s house for a soul-searching birthday. Everyone wants to live, it’s true, but inside everyone wants much more. The play “What Really Matters” is three tragic comedies… Read more
Tshukot (Passion) (שרון בורשטיין ביצ’צ’י)
Genre: A-genre , Absurd , Comic Drama , Performance , Monodrama , Satire
The piece deals with the two biggest passions in Sharon Burstein Bichachi’s life – motherhood and her acting career. The performance brings up the daily survival experienced by a woman, actress and mother who fights for the place and the right to realize herself. The show is based on a true story and describes with… Read more
SAY MY NAME (SAY MY NAME)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Drama
Immerse yourself and embrace the journey in the waiting room of the unknown where characters and audience freely interact while waiting for their name to be called. Say My Name sheds light, in the most unexpected ways, on what it means to feel alive and look at life, memories and regrets from a different point of view… Read more