Suitcase Packers /
Hanoch Levin
Comedy with Eight Funerals
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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 themes of love, family, and the relentless journey of life and death. The characters find themselves repeatedly packing their bags—literally and metaphorically—confronting loss, existential despair, and the absurdities of existence. |
The characters |
Female:10+ Male:10+ Total:20+ |
Translations |
English, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, French
2006 2009 |
Productions |
Premierre1983 Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv director: Michael AlfredsProduction page theatersCameri Theatre of Tel Aviv
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