“…I managed to take control of myself by coping day in day out with my ill-tempered wife, knowing full well that if I manage to cope with Xanthippe’s mean and sour demeanor, I could most likely deal with any man in the world…” (Socrates) Everyone knows the saying, “Behind every successful man stands a woman.”… Read more
Two window cleaners, both refugees from civil war, hang on abseil cables outside of a skyscraper. They have got a job to do and have agreed not to talk about the past. While cleaning the windows, they follow the inaccessible world of well-heeled Western business people. Through a visual metaphor, this play explores concepts as… Read more
Eyal Weiser’s “How’s the Beast?” features three new fictional artists – a Polish choreographer, a German-Israeli artist, and an Israeli performance artist. Working against the backdrop of Operation Protective Edge, the artists each create an artwork in response to an article published in the summer of 2014 in a German newspaper, which expressed concerns regarding… Read more
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
