Village
by
Joshua Sobol
Genre:
Poetic Drama
An eternal child turns into the undertaker of an Israeli village, a place in which he had had a magical childhood among people and animals.
An eternal child turns into the undertaker of an Israeli village, a place in which he had had a magical childhood among people and animals.
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
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