Plays produced at: Beit Lessin Theatre

Wall of glass

by Oren Yaacobi
Genre: Comic Drama, New Writing

English translation: Hadar Galron A successful young Israeli dancer who lives in Berlin suffers a crisis of identity and career when she discovers she is pregnant. The young woman has severed all contact with her mother and younger brother due to her decision to live in Berlin in spite of the objections of her mother,… Read more

Autumn

by Motti Lerner
Genre: 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

A Letter to Noa

by Goren Agmon
Genre: Drama

Noa is a Lebanon War widow who for fifteen years has raised her two sons on her own and runs her late husband’s publishing house. She meets Amnon, an ex-air force pilot who works for the Society for the Protection of Nature, falls in love with him, and for the first time since her husband’s… Read more

Horses on the Highway

by Savyon Liebrecht
Genre: Drama

The play takes place in a rural house located close to a highway. A family lives there: Nina and Yoni, their daughter, a highschool student and their son who is a soldier in the Israeli army. In their youth Nina and Yirmiyahu, her husband’s brother were in love. They were wild young people who did… Read more

Rochaleh’s Wedding

by Savyon Liebrecht
Genre: Drama

(Best Play Award, 2010) Rochaleh has finally met a man she wants to marry and she invites him to meet her father and her sister, with whom she has a complicated relationship. What starts off as a happy event ends up as a catastrophe. The young man reminds the father of his Kappo in Auschwitz… Read more

The Banality of Love

by Savyon Liebrecht
Genre: Drama, Historical Play

The complex relationship between Hanna Arendt and Martin Heidegger, from their first encounter as student and teacher in 1924 to their meeting after the war in 1950. Their story raises ethical questions about how politics and philosophy relate to real life. In the background is the one-sided love affair between German Jews and the German… Read more

Apples from the Desert

by Savyon Liebrecht
Genre: Comedy

(Best Play Award, 2006) A romantic comedy about Sephardi-Jewish parents from Jerusalem whose only daughter runs away from home to live on a kibbutz with a secular man. With a comic, generous and hope-filled spirit, the play sketches the life of young Israelis under the shadow of terrifying social rifts – the ethnic rift between… Read more