Requiem
Based on three stories by Anton Chekhov
Life led me, and I was led. I stood in the long queue to get my handful of sugar, the line was long, and my turn never came.
Translated by: Jessica Cohen
Premiere:
1999
Directed by:
Hanoch Levin
Theatre:
The Cameri Theatre
Number of characters: 12
Subjects:
Old Age,
Search,
Death,
The Human Soul
Costume and stage design: Rakefet Levi
Original music: Yossi Ben Nun
Light: Shai Yehudai
Participants: Yossef Carmon - Old man; Zaharira Harifai - Old woman; Yitshak Hizkia - Driver; Florence Bloch - Prostitute with a mole; Sigalit Fuchs - Prostitute with a freckle; Shabtai Konorti - Medic; Gabi Amrani - Pumpkin shaped drunk; Shimon Mimran - Zucchini shaped drunk; Dror Keren - Happy cherub; Alon Noyman - Funny cherub; Dana Blei - Sad cherub; Sandra Schonwald - the Mother; Simon Krichli - Old man's cabin; Yossi Rachmani - the Horse; Roman Krichli - the Medic's cabin; Shai Feinberg - the Tree man; Tal Ben Bina, Shani Treisman, Irit Bashan, Ronit Zlotin - black people;
Singers: Keren Hadar, Limor Oved, Yael Tzvi
Musicians: Yossi Ben Nun, Shmuel Elbaz, Shuki Wolfus, Avner Yifat
The last play directed by Hanoch Levin
Somewhere, in a desolate village at the edge of a vast land lived two old people, a husband and wife. They took ill and died, lamenting their unfulfilled lives. A young mother holding her dying baby boy, walked through fields looking for a remedy. But the baby died. A mule driver who lost his son drove a group of prostitutes and drunkards in his cart, and yet had no one to share in his pain; his passengers were in the pursuit of happiness. Cherubs who happened to be passing by, collected the souls of the dead.
(From the programme)
Productions abroad
2009 Bacau, Romania
2010 Brazil
2010 Serbia
2011 France
2012 Mexico
2012 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 Moscow, Russia
This work was translated to: English, German, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Russian, סרבית, סלובנית, צ'כית, אוקראינית, הודית, אוקראינית, ספרדית
English Miryam Shlezinger / Barbara Harshav / Dr. Keren Elkalay-Gott and Roy Tartakovsky
French Laurence Sandrovitz
German Naomi Nir Blaemeling
Romanian Leana Strachi / Dennis Idel
Russian Mark Sorasky
Chinese Dr. Ping
Greek Yaacov Shibi