Posts Tagged: Habimah National Theatre

Street Cat (Goren Agmon)

Genre: Drama

A crisis between father, a well-known television figure, and son, a sixteen years old who ran away from home. The father starts to search for him, and is surprised to find him among street boys. Throu the hard search, while giving up his career, the father realizes that he had missed out on his son… Read more

Exile in Jerusaelm (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama

A drama based on the last five years of the life of the great German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker Schuller, who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933 and found refuge in Jerusalem where, in spite of her greatness, she died isolated and forgotten.  

Passing the Love of Women (Motti Lerner)

Genre: Drama

 A play inspired by “Two” a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (written in collaboration with Israel Zamir) about two yeshiva students in 19th century Poland who discover that they are homosexual. They run away from their town and find refuge in the big city of Lublin where they must live as husband and wife. 

The Gypsies of Jaffa (Nissim Aloni)

Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama

In the 1971 documentary film on the making of the Gypsies of Jaffa, Nissim Aloni describes being interviewed by a French Canadian TV channel, in French. He goes on to tell how he answered all questions in fluent French, up until the question: Monsieur Aloni, what is the story of your play? –Here, he says,… Read more