Comic Drama – Genres – Israeli Dramatists Website

Asymptotes (Ido Setter)

“Asymptotes” is a black comedy depicting the devastating manners in which global economy dictates our lives. The play takes place in a world (not too different from ours) where people’s life expectancy is determined by the amount of money they have in their bank accounts. In an ordinary visit to the bank, the CLERK tells… Read more

Motti the bartender is closing the pub in anticipation of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is about to begin. However, when Leah, a Holocaust survivor, enters and insists on having her martini at exactly eight o’clock, things start to get complicated.

The user guide for raising a child (Yarden Gilboa)

Genre: Comic Drama , Drama

A father is raising his son under the keen eyes of a mother who has left home, an old-fashioned Israeli grandmother, a Palestinian expert in wing-building, and a pedagogue who orchestrates the entire event. Each character intervenes and attempts to shape the child’s upbringing. Set in the complex and layered Israeli reality, the play employs… Read more

Lady Amar (Noam Gil)

Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Psychological Drama , Tragedy , Drama

An older woman is taken in the night against her will into a shabby apartment. She identifies herself as Pauline Weiss, and demands her “captors” to return her back home, to her loving rich and powerful husband. They tell her that she is in fact their mother, Jacqueline Amar, a poor Moroccan widow who worked as a cleaning women most… Read more