Posts Tagged: English

Father Figure (שרון אינגריד שטרק)

Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Satire

Betty Drauper hires the services of Mr. Spitz, to be a father figure for her spoiled teenage daughter. But when the father’s strict educational methods take over the house Betty finds that her role as a mother is in jeopardy. A wild and satirical comedy about exemplary parenting in an age of broken boundaries

Jungle in the villa (נעם גיל)

Genre: Comedy , Satire , Thriller-Horror

 A black comedy about love and war A young couple rents a rural housing unit from a couple on the verge of divorce. When the property owners suddenly demand that their new tenants vacate the house, the fantasy of love in the country side becomes a war of attrition.

Asymptotes (Ido Setter)

Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama

“Asymptotes” is a black comedy depicting the devastating manners in which global economy dictates our lives. The play takes place in a world (not too different from ours) where people’s life expectancy is determined by the amount of money they have in their bank accounts. In an ordinary visit to the bank, the CLERK tells… Read more

martini (Nadav Ruziewicz)

Genre: Comic Drama , New Writing

Motti the bartender is closing the pub in anticipation of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is about to begin. However, when Leah, a Holocaust survivor, enters and insists on having her martini at exactly eight o’clock, things start to get complicated.

The user guide for raising a child (Yarden Gilboa)

Genre: Comic Drama , Drama

A father is raising his son under the keen eyes of a mother who has left home, an old-fashioned Israeli grandmother, a Palestinian expert in wing-building, and a pedagogue who orchestrates the entire event. Each character intervenes and attempts to shape the child’s upbringing. Set in the complex and layered Israeli reality, the play employs… Read more

Pawns (Noam Gil)

Genre: Comedy , Psychological Drama , Satire

Pawns is a political satire about characters who imagine themselves in positions of power. Noam, an unemployed academic scholar, gets a job working for a mysterious couple, who demand to treat them as if they were the Prime Minster and the First Lady of Israel. At first, Noam refuses to participate in this ridiculous madness…. Read more

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