Posts Tagged: Zionism

This is The Land (Eyal Weiser)

Genre: A-genre , Monodrama , Satire

“This is the Land” is a scripted, fictitious, directed festival, which wishes to pose a response to the Zionist Creation award Initiated by the Minister of Culture in October 2011, its aim is to provide limitless artistic space to rethink and re-examine the concept of Zionism for those artists who were turned down by the… Read more

Autumn (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama , Psychological 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

The Murder of Isaac (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama , Satire Cabaret

A play about the assassination of Yitzhak (Isaac) Rabin, Israel’s former prime minister following his peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The play is an enactment of the assassiantion as perfromed by 12 inmates, suffering accute PTSD in a mental hospital in israel, exploring the infrastructure of Israeli society in an attempt to present the deep… Read more

A Century (Yigael Sachs)

Genre: Comic Drama , Drama

 On the 100’th birthday of Abraham Goldman,  one of  the first settlers in  “Givat Yehushua”, his family gathered to celebrate. The next morning Goldman is found in critical condition after being poisoned. The struggle    to reveal the truth about his life and death becomes a struggle for the fate of the land.  The play… Read more