Everyone Wants to Live

Costume and stage design: Ruth Dar

Original music and orchestration: Yoni Rechter

Choreography: Oshra Elkayam

Lighting: Brian Harris

Participants: Yossef Carmon - Pozna (a country doctor) / Ilan Dar -Gulgelevitch (the angel of death's deputy) / Yehudit Yanai: Gulgale, (his son), She-wolf / Yitshak Hizkia - Mavetski (the angel of death), Old fortune-teller / Sasson Gabbay - Bamba, Pozna's negro slave / Geta Munte - Pozenbucha, Pozna's wife / Neta Oren - Pozensmark (Pozna's child), Shoeshine  / Estee Haim - Pozensmark, Pozna's child, Blind woman; Shmuel Edelman - Death carriage front mule-driver / Roni Blitz -  Death-carriage's rear mule-driver, Leper, Fat servant / Elinoar - Singing widow, Balding woman / Yoni Chen - Widow-admirer, Man with goiter / Lasha Rosenberg - Weeping maiden / Dror Teplitski - Hunchback, Traveling actor, Softov Rachmaninof (the savior angel) / Yonatan Cherchi - Leg amputee / Shmuel Edelman - Hand amputee / Yehuda Mor - Dying old man, Young fortune-teller / Avner Hizkyahu - Pozna's father / Edna Fliedel - Pozna's mother / Razia Israeli - Tsitsi (traveling actor)

Musicians: Misha Blecherovitz - Keyboard / Guri Agmon/Morton Kam - saxophone, trumpet / Itamar Argov - trumpet / Janet Rembaum - violin 

Everyone wants to live - or to be exact, Nobody wants to die -  tells the story of the owner of a desolate estate, not poor, not old or sick, sentenced to death by the celestial authorities because of a typo in the Angel of Death's notebook. However, amnesty will be granted if he can only find a substitute. Who might agree to replace him? His beloved wife? His dear sons? His elderly parents? Some terminally ill patient? An occasional desperately handicapped individual? Perhaps a Chinese person? And how shall he convince this potential substitute? With love? With force? With money?

Indeed, the world is swarming with potential substitutes, but as our terrified protagonist says, "Ahh, what a tragedy – everyone wants to live!"