Posts Tagged: Drama

Wall of glass (Oren Yaacobi)

Genre: Black Comedy , Comic Drama , New Writing

English translation: Hadar Galron A successful young Israeli dancer who lives in Berlin suffers a crisis of identity and career when she discovers she is pregnant. The young woman has severed all contact with her mother and younger brother due to her decision to live in Berlin in spite of the objections of her mother,… Read more

Kastner (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama , Historical Play

A political/historical drama about the tragic negotiations conducted by the Jewish community in Hungary during World War II with Adolph Eichmann, head of the Gestapo unit 4-B on rescuing the remains of European Jewry. Winner of “Play of The Year” award (1985) The play was published in English in the anthology “Israeli Holocaust Drama” edited by… Read more

Kapo In Jerusalem (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama

Bruno Kaminski  is a physician who was a block leader in Auschwitz, survived the camp, and in 1946 immigrated to Jerusalem with his wife, hoping to begin a new life. As soon as they arrive he is accused that he was a collaborator of the SS and that he maltreated the prisoners in his block…. Read more

Exile in Jerusaelm (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama

A drama based on the last five years of the life of the great German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker Schuller, who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933 and found refuge in Jerusalem where, in spite of her greatness, she died isolated and forgotten.  

Pollard (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama

 A political drama about the scandal created by the Israeli intelligence services that hired an American Jew employed by the American navy to spy for Israel. The story is told from Pollard’s point of view in jail, and his wife’s point of view, tied to her bed, in a mental hospital in Israel.