Posts Tagged: Polish

The Labor of Life (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Drama

Yona Popukh, waking up beside his wife Leviva in the middle of the night, realizes he is tired of his life and decides to leave home in search of a better life—and perhaps new love. He quarrels with Leviva, questions the meaning of his life, and is joined by Gunkel, a hypochondriac friend whose own… Read more

The Child Dreams (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Drama

A modern theatrical fable, loosely inspired by real historical events, that follows the traumatic journey of a mother and her son as they try to escape oppression, seek shelter and survive in a world torn by cruelty, indifference, and death. Through dreamlike and poetic language, the play reflects on the fate of refugees and the… Read more

Suitcase Packers (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Absurd , Comedy , Comic Drama , Poetic Drama

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Suitcase Packers is a dark comedy featuring six families, five lovers, three bachelorettes, nine dead, eight funerals, four widows, eleven suitcases, a baby, an American, a homosexual, a prostitute, a stutterer and a hunchback—all deeply unhappy. The play presents a tapestry of human relationships marked by disappointment, longing, and the search for meaning, revolving around… Read more

How’s the Beast? (Eyal Weiser)

Genre: A-genre , New Writing , Satire

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

PFFFFFF (Yaron Edelstein)

Genre: Farce , Satire

PFFFFFF is a dark farce that tells the story of the Dolphin submarine, floating somewhere in the depths of the Persian Gulf. Its commander has decided to take matters into his own hands and to once and for all bring peace to the Middle East. Meanwhile, Israel’s top politicians and security personnel gather in a… Read more

Krum (Hanoch Levin)

Genre: Comedy , Comic Drama , Poetic Drama

Krum has returned from abroad to his dreary Tel Aviv neighborhood, the same dreary loser as when he left it. He has brought nothing, earned nothing, learned nothing. Wherever life happens, it’s not where he is.

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