Posts Tagged: Drama

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

Pawns (Noam Gil)

Genre: Comedy , Psychological Drama , Satire

Pawns is a political satire about characters who imagine themselves in positions of power. Noam, an unemployed academic scholar, gets a job working for a mysterious couple, who demand to treat them as if they were the Prime Minster and the First Lady of Israel. At first, Noam refuses to participate in this ridiculous madness…. 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