The girl who is actually a wheelbarrow (Oded Liphshitz)
Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Drama , Tragedy
Posts Tagged: German
Under the Skin (Under the Skin)
Genre: Historical Play , Periodical Drama
Tel-Aviv, 1991. Kirsten, a young German reporter, arrives at Charlotte’s door. Through probing questions, Kirsten seeks to unveil the suppressed ghosts from Charlotte’s past, centered around her once-promising career as a Jewish Prima Ballerina, abruptly cut short in her prime. As the evening progresses, Charlotte unveils a love affair she had with her lesbian Nazi… Read more
The Disabled (Gur Koren)
Genre: Comedy , Romantic Comedy
The Giorns are a mafia family specializing in drug smuggling for the third generation, but they fail to deliver the umpteenth shipment in a row, this time to Macedonia. The client is furious and gives the clan one last chance… At that moment, two actors of the “Fantastic Theater” ring the door and ask for… Read more
Mountain (Yaron Edelstein)
Genre: Absurd , Fantasy , Poetic Drama , Tragedy
Five soldiers are trapped in an endless war. They keep coming back to the starting point where they are asked to go into battle to protect their land, and each time the level of sacrifice demanded of them rises. From this nightmarish trap a hero emerges – Mountain – whose character encompasses the promise of… Read more
Ulysses on Bottles (Gilad Evron)
Genre: Drama
Wall of glass (Oren Yaacobi)
Genre: Comic Drama , New Writing
English translation: Hadar Galron A successful young Israeli dancer who lives in Berlin suffers a crisis of identity and career when she discovers she is pregnant. The young woman has severed all contact with her mother and younger brother due to her decision to live in Berlin in spite of the objections of her mother,… Read more
A Momentary Kingdom (Motti Lerner)
Genre: Drama
“Momentary Kingdom” is a play about the life in exile of the German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. From the time he began writing he was persecuted by the King of Prussia for his criticism of the Prussian regime. In 1831 he was forced to flee Germany and find refuge in Paris. The King of Prussia continued… Read more
Autumn (Motti Lerner)
Genre: Drama
A drama about a doctor who immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1896 to become a farmer. After 30 years he doesn’t feel rooted at home, and wants to begin a new life. He falls in love with his former lover’s daughter, but is caught by his wife and children who kill him to stop the… Read more
Between Two Worlds (Sara von Schwarze)
Genre: Drama
Summary 73-year-old Abraham, a well-respected congregant of Munich’s Jewish community, is to be honoured with an official birthday ceremony, when the night before an unexpected guest appears at his and his (significantly younger) long-term partner Sabine’s apartment: Totally unexpected Ruth, Abraham’s grown-up daughter, shows up . We realize Abraham hadn’t seen her for years. Ruth… Read more
Five KG Sugar (Gur Koren)
Genre: Comedy
The story of Gur, whose late grandfather appears to him through people he knows and randomly meets. Gur is sent on a mission that takes him from sugar smuggling in WWII to the bed of a lecturer in Eastern European history. Set in Tel Aviv, and written in the style of a mockumentary, the play… Read more