{"id":7943,"date":"2014-11-06T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/play\/%d7%94%d7%a4%d7%a8%d7%93%d7%a1-2\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:05:50","slug":"the-orchard","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/the-orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ida, a Russian ballet teacher, steps into the beautiful orchard of Menashe Sirkman, an embittered widower. The orchard \u2013 full of fragrances and beauty \u2013 reminds her of romantic dreams she had long forgotten after her immigration to Israel. The delicate, unexpected love story between Ida and Menashe arouses the jealousy of his wicked brother and sister, whose heart\u2019s desire is to be the orchard\u2019s owners. While the Russian woman sees the orchard as a symbol of beauty, the brothers, originally Israelis from a moshava rural community \u2013 refer to it as property.<\/p>\n<p>The Orchard can be seen as Bar-Yosef\u2019s version of Chekhov\u2019s The Cherry Orchard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ida, a Russian ballet teacher, steps into the beautiful orchard of Menashe Sirkman, an embittered widower. The orchard \u2013 full of fragrances and beauty \u2013 reminds her of romantic dreams she had long forgotten after her immigration to Israel. The delicate, unexpected love story between Ida and Menashe arouses the jealousy of his wicked brother&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/the-orchard\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/7943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/7943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16628,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/7943\/revisions\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}