Suitcase Packers
A comedy with eight funerals
In my mind’s eye I saw my life differently. People crowding around me in order to shake my hand. And here I am looking around me – no crowding! Loads of free space.
Translated by: Naaman Tammuz
Premiere:
1983
Directed by:
Mike Alfreds
Theatre:
The Cameri Theatre
Number of characters: 30
Subjects:
Love,
Relationships,
Search,
Family
Stage design: Ruth Dar
Original music: Rafi Kadishzon
Participants: Avraham Plata - Shabtai, Bruno; Ruth Segal - Bianca; Hanni Nachmias - Nina; Tiki Dayan - Bella; Zaharira Harifai - Henia; Shabtai Konorti - Elhanan; Tzvi Pearl - Tzvi; Ilan Dar - Munya; Yossef Carmon - Motke; Hanna Rot - Tsipora; Aharon Almog - Avner; Lesha Rosenberg - Angela; Albert Cohen - Alberto; Dror Teplitsky - Elisha; Aliza Rosen - Prostitute; Perry Meroz - Hassidic Jew, Paramedic; Shmuel Edelman - Hassidic Jew, Undertaker; Tamir Rozanis - Paramedic, Hassidic Jew
Six families, five lovers, three bachelorettes, nine dead, eight funerals, four widows, eleven suitcases, a baby, an American, an homosexual, a prostitute, a stutterer and a hunchback, all deeply unhappy.
(From the programme)
Additional productions
The Nissan Nativ Acting Studio (2008) / Directed by Moshe Kalif
The Cameri Theatre (2011) / Directed by Udi Ben Moshe
Productions abroad
2003 University of Columbia, USA
2006 Bulgaria
2006 Warsaw, Poland
2012 Moscow, Russia
2013 Budapest, Hungary
2013 Lublin, Poland
This work was translated to: Polish, French
French Laurence Sendrowicz and Jacqueline Carnaud, Théâtrales Publishing (2006)
Polish ADIT Publishing, Poland (2009)