Posts Tagged: Hypocrisy

Barabbas (Shay Azoulay)

Genre: Black Comedy , Tragedy

A comic revenge tragedy inspired by Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta. the play takes place  in the 16th century in a small Italian town where the entire populace, from the chief of police to the whores on the street, follow Machiavelli’s realpolitik teachings. Barabbas is a wealthy Jewish merchant whose entire fortune is confiscated… Read more

Shade (Shay Azoulay)

Genre: Absurd , Comic Drama , Short Play

A mundane argument between two neighbors regarding a tree and the shade that it casts becomes an absurd struggle involving neighborly relations and responsibility, justice and punishment, inspiration and humiliation.