Posts Tagged: Tragedy

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

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.