Tragedy – Genres – Israeli Dramatists Website

TRAFFIC (נדב רוזיאביץ)

**”All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way home”. (Tolstoy, if he were alive today) Again, sirens, nerves, an apologetic phone call to the one waiting, again the despair. Sometimes it seems that our lives are what happens between one traffic jam and another. But what’s happening inside… Read more

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

The old man and the cartoon (Itzik Aloni)

Genre: Drama , Tragedy

The Ephemerals (Yaron Edelstein)

Genre: Fantasy , Poetic Drama , Tragedy

Avot is a young poet, against his will making a living as the weather man on channel 51. One night, he got into a terror attack at the heart of the city. He is covering the event live on prime time TV, and for the first time of his life he is gaining a single… Read more

Barabbas (Shay Azoulay)

Genre: Tragedy

A comic revenge tragedy inspired by Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta. the play takes place in the 16th century in a small Italian town where the entire populace, from the chief of police to the whores on the street, follow Machiavelli’s realpolitik teachings. Barabbas is a wealthy Jewish merchant whose entire fortune is confiscated… Read more

War Whores (Or Ben-Ezra Segal)

Genre: Absurd , Drama , Poetic Drama , Tragedy

In a demilitarized zone where two rival soldiers are trapped with a kidnapped child. Alongside the main characters appear a prostitute, an ambassador, a mother of a fallen soldier, and a news reporter. The narrative presents absurd, dramatic, and poetic scenes, highlighting the complexity, pain, and contradictions in the conflict zone.