Plays produced at: Beit Lessin Theatre

Grandmother

Leah’s last day, as an elderly woman nearing 80, began like any other. She woke up, washed, dressed, drank a cup of tea, and prepared for another mundane, sunny day in the sleepy colony. However, that morning, while listening to the morning news on her old transistor radio, Leah was shocked to hear the Prime… Read more

THE SECRETS

The year is 1996. Naomi, the daughter of an ultra-Orthodox Dayan, Rabbi Hess, manages to convince her father to postpone her wedding and allow her to study at a girls’ seminary in Safed. She shares her subversive dream of becoming the first Orthodox female rabbi only with Debori, the head of her school. Davori, who… Read more

THE REPLACEMENT

Genre: Comedy

Oded Pasternak, a devoted insurance agent, gets back from work and finds out that his wife was replaced by another woman. Surprisingly enough the alternative new wife knows his daily habits and his most secret passions. Oded decides to enjoy the new wife for the night, unaware of the devastating consequences he gets himself into…. Read more

The Captives

Genre: Drama

“The Captives” inspired by a real event eve of war in a remote village. The men say goodbye to their wives, leave everything, and go to the front. Four women stay behind and struggle to survive and provide for their families. The hardship brings them to unite and establish a cafe serving the area’s residents… Read more

Mikveh

A “mikveh” is the ritual bath in which religious Jewish women (from wedding until menopause) immerse once a month, in order to purify themselves from the ‘impure blood’ and be once again permitted (physically) to their husbands. Mikveh is the physical space in which this play unfolds, but it is also the humane space deep… Read more

Yom Kippur

Genre: Comic Drama

A mother suddenly disappears on the eve of Yom Kippur, forcing her four estranged daughters to reunite in their childhood home, where long-buried secrets and resentments erupt as they seek forgiveness and a chance for repair.

Mimuna

Genre: Drama

A family drama set on the day of the Mimouna celebration. It focuses on Maxim Dahan, a businessman in financial distress, who invites the Minister of Commerce and Industry to celebrate Mimouna at his home. Amid preparations, family tensions arise: his wife Miriam struggles to preserve family unity while asserting her dignity and freedom, and… Read more