Posts Tagged: Poetic Drama

Linda, Victor (Ido Setter)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama

Linda sits on a chair at stage right. Victor sits on a chair at stage left. Through poetic intertwining monologues their mutual life as a couple, parents and grandparents is revealed. Their recorded voices from the past accompany them throughout the play and bring memories from different life times, while they try, each one in… Read more

Mountain (Yaron Edelstein)

Genre: Absurd , Fantasy , Poetic Drama , Tragedy

Five soldiers are trapped in an endless war. They keep coming back to the starting point where they are asked to go into battle to protect their land, and each time the level of sacrifice demanded of them rises. From this nightmarish trap a hero emerges – Mountain – whose character encompasses the promise of… Read more

Requiem (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama , Poetic Drama

The play follows characters in a remote village – an old coffin-maker and his wife, a young mother with her dying baby, a wagon driver, drunks, and prostitutes – all lonely individuals confronting pain, death, and existential regret. The old man, obsessed with saving and business, faces the emptiness of his life when his wife… Read more