‘Mikve’ by Hadar Galron will have a New Premiere in the Czech Republic on 28.2 . It is the 7th CZECH Premiere of the play, which has become a Czech-classic . This Production is at the Big Hall of the South Bohemian theatre.
The Eichmann Trial opera will premiere at the Romanian National Opera
The Romanian National Opera in Bucharest will premiere The Eichmann Trial on March 29, 2025. The opera, composed by Gil Shohat, features a libretto by renowned playwright Motti Lerner, based on his stage play of the same name, which was performed last year at Bucharest’s National Theatre.
Set against the backdrop of the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, the opera unfolds not only in the courtroom but also behind the scenes. It explores the prosecution’s challenges, the legal confrontations between Eichmann and his defense attorney, and the political pressures exerted by West Germany on Israel to avoid addressing German collective guilt.
This collaboration between the Romanian National Opera and the National Theatre of Bucharest was spearheaded by Noam Semel, Chairman of the Institute for Israeli Drama, and Tova Ben Nun, President of the Jewish Education Network in Romania.
ישרא-דרמה: חשיפה בילאומית לתיאטרון 2024
ISRA-DRAMA 2024: Building Cultural Bridges
ISRA-DRAMA 2024 is holding the Exposure online this year because of the war.
This year’s theme is “Building Cultural Bridges,”because it feels more urgent than ever. While politics and “The News” are set on creating more conflict in the “divide and rule” style – art creates a space for empathy, dialogue, and shared humanity. ISRA-DRAMA 2024 is our way of saying that even in uncertain times, storytelling must endure.
This year’s program is as dynamic as ever, designed for easy navigation and discovery. Highlights include:
- Panels that delve into War and Theatre, exploring documentary storytelling and the role of humor in crisis, featuring both Israeli and Palestinian voices.
- A special Playmarket that introduces you to some of Israel’s talented playwrights who are not in this year’s exposure lineup.
- At the heart of it all, you’ll find the selected plays in full—ready for you to experience the creativity and depth of Israeli theatre from wherever you are.
- https://exposure.dramaisrael.org/
Hanoch Levin’s comedy, The Hesitator, in Bratislava
Hanoch Levin’s comedy, The Hesitator, explores the humorous yet poignant struggles of a man perpetually caught between his ailments and his entangled relationships with women. Torn between three potential partners, he secretly yearns for a fourth—an unattainable beauty. When he finally makes his choice, he’s consumed by regret, convinced he’s chosen wrong.
In this sharp and satirical portrayal of indecision, Levin delves into the human tendency to idealize what’s out of reach, revealing the bittersweet truth: happiness often seems to lie on the road not taken.
Isra-drama November 26-30 2019
Isra-Drama – Spotlight on Israeli Drama
An event designed to expose Israeli drama to the international theatre community: festival directors, theatre directors, stage directors, artistic directors, dramaturges, translators, and journalists. During the week-long Isra-Drama, we present the best of Israel’s original playwriting on stages, accompanied by subtitles. Our guests are invited to panels and discussions with Israel’s leading theatre creators, and have the opportunity to meet and talk with our playwrights. Isra-Drama is produced with collaboration and support of the Ministry of Culture and Sport – Culture Administration; Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Department of Culture and Science Relations; Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo; The Marc Rich Foundation for Education, Culture and Welfare, and The Tel Aviv Yehoshua Rabinowitz Arts Foundation.
A Winter Funeral by Hanoch Levin has been performed in Brussels
It seems that weddings, funerals, and family members who will go to any lengths to avoid a funeral they’d rather not attend, or to not miss a wedding they’ve been waiting for their whole life – are universal subjects.
A Winter Funeral by Hanoch Levin has been performed at Théâtre du Rideau de Bruxelles in Brussels to great success and critical acclaim. Director Michael Delaunoy has directed Levin’s Ya’akobi and Leidental and The Labor of Living in the past, so the Levinesque world of imagery is very familiar to him. The cast comprises actors from Belgium and Switzerland since the play was produced in collaboration with the Swiss Compagnie du Passage.
The Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama, which represents the rights to Levin’s plays abroad, reports that the play also premiered at Slovak National Theatre at the end of March.
The play is part of an anthology of Hanoch Levin’s plays that is due to be published in China, and a Chinese production of the play is forthcoming.
https://www.rideaudebruxelles.be/projects/funerailles-dhiver/?pr=4188
The Eurodram Hebrew committee selected three plays for 2018
Eurodram is a European theatre translation network covering European, Mediterranean and Central Asian languages. The network is organised into roughly 30 language-based committees.
Eurodram’s main objective is promote contemporary plays from across the wider European area to theatre professionals and theatre audiences.
The plays are selected through two biennial competitions
The Eurodram Hebrew committee selected three plays for 2018:
They say she will start in July / Danielle Cohen Levy
Mothers, Three / Lahav Timor
Horribly Human / Gilad Evron
This year’s selection was dedicated to the play-writer Gilad Evron for his immense contribution to Israeli play writing.
This year, 50 plays were submitted, of which 44 fitted the brief’s criteria. A third of those plays were written by women.
The plays were read anonymously by 8 committee members and only after the selection process was over, the writers’ names were revealed.
The members of the Hebrew committee for 2018 are :
Maya Arad Yasur, Nohar Lazarovich, Oded Liphshitz, Liat Fassberg, Shay Shabtay, Gundula Schiffer and Lilach Dekel-Avneri and Zohar Wexler – the committee’s co-coordinators.
“Under The Skin” by Jonathan Calderon in “Old Red Lion Theater” in London.
After nominated one of the ten most interesting performances on Camden Fringe Festival, the play “Under The Skin” by Jonathan Calderon, directed by Ariella Eshed, will debute at the end of the month on Old Red Lion Theater in London. The production will also participate in Brighton Fringe Festival this May.
Maya Arad Yasur’s latest play AMSTERDAM in Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin
Maya Arad Yasur‘s latest play AMSTERDAM is one of six plays selected for the Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin which will take place in May 2018.
AMSTERDAM will have a staged reading in Festival d’Avignon in July 2018, in the context of the France-Israel events (translated to French by Laurence Sendrowicz)
Her play SUSPENDED will have a German premiere in October 2018 at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen