A Mystery Play ‘Saddam Hussein’ is a grotesque and spectacular tale that focuses on the sublime figure of the Iraqi dictator on the eve of the invasion of the American forces. Hidden in a bunker and surrounded by three mustached doubles, Saddam spins out of control and delves into the depths of crude oil and […]
A Musical-Theatrical Creation On the last night of his life, Raful stands on the breakwater of Ashdod Port and encounters the sea. Through a series of visions and songs, his former subordinates, enemies, and loved ones emerge from the waves and try to seduce the highly reserved general and overpower him. The story of Raful’s […]
The Book of Joshua comes back to life in these days of polarization; it challenges the collective memory of the People of Israelwith the words that recur time and again in the original text: “To this day.” Bluntly, this controversial and challenging book tells the story of the conquest of the land and the first Israelite […]
The inter-disciplinarian artist Merav Ben-David wanders through the memory-basements of far-flung towns and retrieves forgotten Hebrew folk songs. The songs come back to life in an imaginary classroom wherein shtetl-type Hebrew meets scientific jargon, states of terror encounter pastoral hallucinations, and sweet childhood songs mix with poetic desperation and black humor. With these songs, the […]
O.S.L.O is a corporeal show that meets a spectator’s body, a reading event that meets the eye, an auditory show that meets the ear, and a history show that meets the human. O.S.L.O is a historical dance work in snow and storm. It is chronicles, movements, and noises that address the Israeli-Palestinian political narrative and […]
Snow falls silently and covers the stage. The storm takes over and ignores the sun that shines outside. Beit Hasefer Lemezeg Avir has its own time and climate. The School of Weathers: Two different pieces in one day, within the same space, and under the same stormy conditions | Non-Tropo is a show designed for children […]
A science-fiction performance which provides a new and different view of the way we understand the past and imagine the future. ‘Worlds – a Canaan-Futuristic Song Cycle’ is a performance of images and thoughts, looking anew at the past and re-imagining a future: a levantine, middle-eastern, Mediterranean, sweaty, radical, feminist, transgressive, poetic, refusing closure, non-western, non-Jewish, […]
Exhausted by the attempt to live his life, lonesome and naked, he falls asleep under a tree, among leftovers and trash that had been emitted by the soul itself. In this lost paradise, he may turn out to be the first man or the last man… Without any justification that could be reconciled with sound […]
At the beginning, there are clues. A hammer of massive proportions. A huge Succah resembling a transparent elevator, billowing smoke. A stairway rising skyward, leading nowhere. Nava Frenkel is an artist who combines clues. She likes to throw her audience into chaos, and to then rescue it with humor and sophistication. She doesn’t want you to […]
Buckets of salt are poured on the floor. Tiny creatures build roads and pathways across a sea of white. A small hand pops up among the particles of salt, trying to cross the hill. The camera follows it, and projects its escape on a screen. Using a movie camera, a Puppet, and half a ton […]
