Photo from the playbill of “Requiem” –The Cameri Theater, 1999
Rakefet Levi | Israel

And once again I’m all alone. The sorrow that left me for a little while returns to cruelly crush my heart, so much so that I fear I will no longer be able to bear it. More than two weeks have gone by since he died and I still haven’t properly discussed his passing with anybody. The whole thing demands a serious conversation. You have to elaborate solemnly all about how he suddenly got sick, how he suffered, what his last words were, and then eventually how he died. And I have to discuss the funeral. There’s so much to say, and whoever’s listening will nod their head, give a sigh, maybe even shed a tear or two... Best thing would’ve been to tell women. They’re dumb, but boy can they cry

// Requiem

Translation: Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

Photo of the tree used in the production of “Requiem”, from the playbill of the debut, directed by Hanoch Levin. The play was staged at The Cameri Theater in 1999. The sets and costumes from that legendary production were designed by Rakefet Levi.
 

Photo: Gadi Dagon, courtesy of The Cameri Theater Archives

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Security Instructions in the Occupied Territories | "The Patriot"
Pippa Nixon | Britain

Welcome to the Beit Jarjur military governor’s residence.

Security instructions:
A man walking down the street glancing nervously from side to side and over his shoulder – shall be suspected of being an Arab terrorist.
A man walking down the street looking calmly ahead of him – shall be suspected of being a level-headed Arab terrorist.
A man walking down the street looking up at the sky – shall be suspected of being a religious Arab terrorist.
A man walking down the street staring at the ground – shall be suspected of being a shy Arab terrorist.
A man walking down the street with his eyes shut – shall be suspected of being a drowsy Arab terrorist.
A man not walking down the street – shall be suspected of being a sick Arab terrorist.
All the suspects listed above shall be arrested. In the event of an attempted escape, a warning shot will be fired in the air.
The body will be taken to the forensic institute

// The Patriot

Translation: Naaman Tammuz.

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Hanoch Levin at a rehearsal for "Everyone Wants to Live" – The Cameri Theater, 1985
Photo by: Yisrael Hermati | Israel

Other people’s death is a fact of life, my own death – just a myth!

// Everyone Wants to Live

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

Photograph from a rehearsal for Everyone Wants to Live, staged at the Cameri Theater in 1985. Pictured: Hanoch Levin and Yonatan Cherchi.

Photo: Yisrael Harmati, courtesy of The Cameri Theater Archives

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Photo from “The Constant Mourner” – The Cameri Theater, 2020
Photo by: Raday Rubinstein | Israel

I see our luke-warm expression as covering up a grimace of fear

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

Photo from the debut production of The Constant Mourner, directed by Ari Folman. The play was staged at the Cameri Theater in 2020. Pictured: Mia Landsman and Maurice Cohen.

Photo: Raday Rubinstein, courtesy of The Cameri Theater Archives

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A Photo from Krum – the Cameri Theater, 2017
Photo by: Gerard Alon | Israel

Rise, wretched people. The film is over, be ashamed to live.

// Krum

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

Photo from the play Krum, staged at the Cameri Theater in 2017, directed by Ilan Ronen.

 

Additional participants in this production:

Movement: Miri Lazar

Set Design: Niv Manor

Costumes: Ola Shebaztov

Music: Miri Lazar

Lighting: Ziv Villoshin

Video Art:  Amir Tal

With the participation of: Anat Vaxman, Alon Dahan, Udi Rothschild, Sara von Schwarze, Kineret Limoni, Eran Mor, Dana Meinart, Yarden Bracha, Eli David Bilenka, Guy Mesika, Eran Sarel, Ronni Gorenstein, Yishai Ben-Moshe, Harel Lissman.

 

Shozes and Bjijina | 1992

The nighttime weaves nightmares, and the daylight makes them come true

// Shozes and Bjijina

Translation: Jessica Cohen

The play was first staged in 2012 at the Micro Theater in Jerusalem, directed by Irina Gorlick

Sketch of a Costume from "Everyone Wants to Live" – the Cameri Theater, 1985
Ruth Dar | Israel

I hate orphans and whores so much, it’s like they’re made to find their way into wills where they don’t belong!

// Everyone Wants to Live

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

A sketch of a costume by Ruth Dar, created as part of the costume design process for the debut production of the play Everyone Wants to Live, directed by Hanoch Levin at the Cameri Theater in 1985.

From the Playbill: 
"Everyone wants
to live
Everyone wants
to live
Everyone wants to live

Everyone wants to live
or more precisely,  no one wants to die,
is the story of the owner of an estate in the middle of nowhere, a man who is not wretched, not old and not sick, to whom the heavens unexpectedly deliver a death sentence. Due to an error in the angel of death’s notebook he is offered a pardon, on the condition that he finds a substitute. Who will agree to take his place?
His beloved wife? 
His adorable sons? 
His elderly parents? 
Someone suffering from an incurable disease?
A despairing invalid?
Maybe someone Chinese?
And how will he pay the substitute?
With love?
With power? 
With money?
Indeed, the world is swarming with substitutes – but, as our terrified hero puts it: “What a disaster. Everyone wants to live!”

Illustration courtesy of the Cameri Theater archives.
 

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Photo from the playbill of “Requiem” –The Cameri Theater, 1999
Photo by: Gadi Dagon | Israel

Our life is a lie. The world is a lie. The real world is created when we close our eyes. Reality is there when we open them no longer

// Requiem

Translation: Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

 

Photo of Yosef Carmon and Zaharia Harifai which appeared in the playbill of the debut, directed by Hanoch Levin. The play was staged at The Cameri Theater in 1999.

From the playbill:
“A Legend about Death.
Somewhere, at the edge of a great land, in a remote village, lived two elderly people, a husband and wife. They got sick and died, filled with regrets about their lives. 
A young mother, holding her dying infant son in her arms, wandered the fields looking for a cure. Later the baby died. 
A wagon driver in mourning for his dead son transported drunks and whores in his wagon, and had no one to whom he could pour out his heart. 
The drunks and whores were chasing after happiness.
The angels, who were nearby, collected the souls of the dead.”

Photo: Gadi Dagon, courtesy of The Cameri Theater Archives
 

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Illustrator: Yuval Farman | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Shhh… My son is sleeping, do not disturb him, he is creating the world now. A thin strand of saliva falls from his mouth to the ocean, and all the continents on either side await only him. Such is my son: anything less than a whole world, he will not dream of

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Scene from "Walkers in the Dark" − Seminar HaKibutzim Drama School 2021
Tal Brenner | Israel

I know, I may be a literary theory and all that, but even the ass is no stranger to us theories! Come!

// Walkers in the Dark

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

Photo from the play, Walkers in the Dark, directed by Tal Brenner, performed at the Seminar HaKibutzim Drama School in 2021. Photo by Shlomi Farin

With the participation of: 
Lighting: Adam Keller
Original Musical Score: Itamar Gross
Choreography: Ariel Wolf
Costumes: Yehudit Alroei
Producer, Assistant Director: Omer Boulanger Cohen
Actors: Lior Aviviv, Carmel Avidan, Yehonatan Bason, Hila Godai, Danny Herziano, Yaniv Vinogradsky, Ron Yagerman, Adva Levi, Yael Sadan, Itai Samo, Yahel Papo, Gaia Kalam, Yovel Karsal, Assaf Sorek, Gili Ganani, Kobi Zislin, Gal Yakubovitz, Itai Porat

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The Cover of the Playbill for "Submissive and Defeated" − the Cameri Theater, 1988
Uri Lipschitz | Israel

You are not all that mighty, I am not all that tiny. That’s the trouble—the middle. It’s the middle that will kill us.

// Submissive and Defeated

Translation: Jessica Cohen

 

An illustration by the artist Uri Lipschitz, which appeared on the cover of the playbill from the debut production of "Submissive and Defeated". The play was staged at the Cameri Theater in 1988, and directed by Hanoch Levin.

The illustration appears courtesy of the Cameri Theater archives 

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The Trailer of "A Winter Funeral" – Hong Kong, 2021
Directors: Li Guowei and Feng Weiheng | Hong Kong

Exactly! So I don’t go looking for trouble and I don’t open doors! I want to marry off my daughter Velvetzia tomorrow, that’s all, four hundred guests and eight hundred chickens are already waiting for tomorrow, and I’m not going to risk the chuppah which has cost me my entire life and all my savings, for whatever it is which might be waiting to ambush me behind that door! I don’t want to see anyone and I don’t want to hear about anything which isn’t to do with the wedding!

From now until the end of the wedding, the entire earth can be destroyed for all I care – I’m lifting this chuppah tomorrow! To sleep!

//

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

An animation film created for the play "A Winter Funeral", staged in 2021 at the Arts Centre Shouson Theatre in Hong Kong.

 

The video appears courtesy of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. The video created by TR Concept and Visual Atelier

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Illustrator: Lior Bar Noy | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

You open a window, see something by chance – a leaf swaying on a tree, a lizard motionless in the sun – or the smell of blossoming flowers hits your nostrils, and suddenly, like lightning, a magical moment from childhood lights up in you. You try to grasp it, because you know that is where life really was, only there…

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College  illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations to short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shiran.

Exhibition Designer: Dar Lior

A Photo from “Romantics” – the Cameri Theater, 2002
Photo by: Barry Frydlender | Israel

To hell with the seasons of the year and all the years and all the life, they and the whole world can all be buried with me in the black grave and we’ll be done with the unfunniest comedy I’ve ever seen and which is known as my life.

// Romantics

Translation: Jessica Cohen

 

A photo that appeared in the playbill of the debut production of Romantics, which was staged in 2002 at the Cameri Theater, directed by Micah Levinson. Pictured: actors Gabi Amrani, Zaharira Harifai, and Yosef Carmon.

Photo: Barry Frydlender | The photo appears courtesy of the Cameri Theater archives

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An Illustration from the Playbill of "Vardeleh’s Youth" – the Cameri Theater, 1974
Audrey Bergner | Israel

I’m only just finishing up one disappointment, and already they’re calling me to start another.

// Vardaleh’s Youth

Translation: Jessica Cohen

 

An Illustration from the playbill of the debut production of Vardeleh’s Youth, staged at the Cameri Theatre in 1974, directed by Hanoch Levin.

The illustration is displayed courtesy of the Cameri Theater archives

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Illustrator: Uri Gold | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

A thin strand of saliva falls from his mouth to the ocean, and all the continents on either side await only him. Such is my son: anything less than a whole world, he will not dream of

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Photo from the playbill of “Requiem” –The Cameri Theater, 1999
Shabtai Konorti | Israel

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

// Requiem

Translated by: Jessica Cohen

Photo shot by Shabtai Konroti from “Requiem”, which appeared in the playbill of the debut, directed by Hanoch Levin. The play was staged at The Cameri Theater in 1999.

Photo: Gadi Dagon, courtesy of The Cameri Theater Archives
 

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Scene from the playbill of “Thrill My Heart” – The Cameri Theatre, 2007
Gadi Dagon | Israel

And if someone were to ask me: Where was the essence of your life? I would answer: Waiting under her window with a tremor in my heart and no hope—there, that is where life was, only there!

// Thrill My Heart

Translated by: Jessica Cohen

A scene from the playbill of the debut performance of “Thrill My Heart,” directed by Udi Ben Moshe, performed at The Cameri Theatre in 2007.

Pictured: Meirav Gruber, Rubi Moskovitz, Assaf Pariente, Ziv Klayer

 

Photograph by Gadi Dagon, courtesy of The Cameri Theatre Archives

 

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Scene from "The Lamenters" –The Cameri Theatre 2000
Ilan Ronen | Israel

Leave us in peace, miserable man, we haven’t shut our eyes for three nights, we’re slaving away here. You’ll die soon. Soon enough you’ll stop deafening our ears, our eyes will no longer fall upon you, the world will be free of your cries. You will cease to be, your body will be tossed into a pit, naked and filthy, where it will slowly rot and dissolve into the earth. No one will remember you, your suffering will be wiped away as though it had never existed

// The Lamenters

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

Scene from the debut production of The Lamenters, staged in 2000, directed by Ilan Ronen at The Cameri Theatre. 

This was the last play that Hanoch Levin attempted to direct before his death. He passed away while the production was still in rehearsal.

 

Pictured: Dov Navon, Gabi Amrani, and Macram Houri.  Photograph by Hanoch Grizetzky.

The photo appears courtesy of the Cameri Theatre Archives | Read more about the production

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Poster from "Yaacobi and Leidental" - Poland, 2014
Photo: Magda Hueckel | Poland

Someone wants me. There’s someone who’ll cry over my coffin. There’s crying, ladies and gentlemen. I don’t have the patience to wait, I hope I die an hour after the wedding

// Yaacobi and Leidental [Temporary title]

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

Directed by Marcin Hycnar, at the Teatr Poweszechny, first performed in 2014.

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Photo from “Chefetz” – Israel 1996
Ilan Ronen | Israel

I feel bad, very bad, my heart pounds and gives me no peace, I am constantly sweating. I would willingly crumple into a little ball and roll under the cabinet. What really bothers me is my spine. It claims to be on my side, holding up my body, but in fact it denounces my head in public, does not let me crumple into be a little ball, ha ha, a little ball. I appeal to my spine: let my head droop, let me fall and roll, let, me, ha ha, down, ha ha. It will not let me—my enemy, a true enemy. I carry an enemy inside my own body

// Chefetz

Translation: Jessica Cohen

 

Picture from “Hefetz,” staged at The Cameri Theatre in 1996, directed by Ilan Ronen

Pictured: Keren Mor and Avi Termin

 

From the playbill:

“Argument”

That night there was an argument: What can be said about the dead? That they can feel and also budge? That they can feel but they can’t budge? That they can budge, but they can’t feel? Or that they can’t feel and can’t budge? One said this, the other said that. One, sweating as he drank his tea, said feel, but not budge. Another sipped with sad eyes and said budge, but not feel. A third drank with big restrained gulps, and said not feel and not budge. A fourth, who could have said “feel and budge,” wasn’t present, which is a shame, because if he were, then all the options would have been covered. The third had it best, because his answer was the most probable, spoken in moderation. The second caused the most aggravation: How can a dead person budge? Did you ever see a dead person budge? And he narrowed his sad piercing eyes and insisted: he can budge. But he insisted in vain. The whole conversation was pointless; no one had any documents to prove anything. They spoke in order to speak, he said this and he said that. Death seemed far away and theoretical, and there was tea. Afterward silence prevailed. They had spoken, and now they slept and snored. // Hanoch Levin

 

With the participation of:

Set design and costumes: Bukey Schiff

Music: Eran Dinor

Lighting: Felice Ross

Actors: Yakov Cohen, Yosef Carmon, Tiki Dayan, Yonatan Church, Keren Mor, Avi Termin, Yitzhak Hezkiyah, Merav Grover

Photography: Yisrael Hermati. Photo courtesy of The Cameri Theatre Archives

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Poster from "A Winter Funeral" – Hong Kong 2021
Directors: Li Guowei and Feng Weiheng | Hong Kong

Just as god finally wants to give someone a wedding, a funeral ends up slipping out of his sleeve

// Winter Funeral

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

A poster from the play A Winter Funeral, which was recently staged in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Arts Centre Shouson Theatre.

Read more about the production
 

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Scene from “Krum” – The Cameri Theatre, 2000
Gadi Dagon | Israel

The worse it gets for me, the more I cling to life. Like a fly to filth

// Krum

Translated by Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

Photo from “Krum,” directed by Michael Gurevitch, at The Cameri Theatre in 2000

 

With the participation of:

Set design and costumes: Ruth Dar

Lighting: Felice Ross

Music: Eran Dinor

Cast: Rami Baruch, Devorah Kedar, Ezra Dagan, Yitzhak Hezkiyah, Motti Katz, Chana Roth, Adva Adani, Avi Penini, Rozina Cambos, Herut Ashkenazi, Mordi Gershon, Avi Talmin, Yaniv Hai, Yossi Pershitz, Gur Azikri, Elinor Aharon

Musicians: Shiri Laks-Slatkin, Tuval Peter, Shira Epstein, Nitzan Baratna, Nitzan Vigoretivz, Mai Homa

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Illustration from the playbill of "Walkers in the Dark" - Seminar HaKibutzim Drama School 2021
Omer Boulanger Cohen | Israel

Imagine death: imagine nothing, and then imagine even less. Imagine utter darkness and then imagine even greater darkness. Imagine what you cannot imagine, imagine everything you’ve known, the women, the rain, the bread rolls, the sun, then add to them the descriptive “not.” Not-rain, not-sun, notbread-rolls, not-women, imagine all that and erase imagination, too, because there are no more shapes, sounds, sensations, and do not be afraid, fear is erased, too, gone are the words – the negation words as well – and the word “no” is erased, and the word ‘’not,” and noneness is gone, the nothing is multiplied, you cannot envision until you arrive, and when you arrive you will have no vision

// Walkers in the Dark

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

Illustration by Omer Boulanger Cohen, from the playbill of “Walkers in the Dark” – directed by Tal Brenner, performed at the Seminar HaKibutzim Drama School in 2021.

 

With the participation of:

Lighting: Adam Keller

Original Musical Score: Itamar Gross

Choreography: Ariel Wolf

Costumes: Yehudit Alroei

Producer, Assistant Director: Omer Boulanger Cohen

Actors: Lior Aviviv, Carmel Avidan, Yehonatan Bason, Hila Godai, Danny Herziano, Yaniv Vinogradsky, Ron Yagerman, Adva Levi, Yael Sadan, Itai Samo, Yahel Papo, Gaia Kalam, Yovel Karsal, Assaf Sorek, Gili Ganani, Kobi Zislin, Gal Yakubovitz, Itai Porat

Read more about Omer Boulanger Cohen

Quote from "The Child Dreams"
Steffan Rhodri | Britain

You will breathe and eat and bathe and excrete! You will live without your son, you will! And that’s the whole matter, that’s what is so humiliating: that we can keep on living without that which is dearest of all

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

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More information Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays One

Quote from "Requiem"
Sun Lee | China

If I cried, sir, it would have been easier for the world. They would say, “There is wrong, but there is also release”

// Requiem

Translated by Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

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Quote from "Requiem"
Moni Moshonov | Israel

In our world laughs only him that is not crying yet

// Requiem

Translation: Jessica Cohen

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Set design for "Requiem" - China, 2019
Roni Toren | Israel

Oh, pishpushkalé,
You shan’t rejoice for long in the pushkalé,
One day you’ll start to shakekalé,
You’ll feel a funny achekalé
The doc will probe your rumpkalé
He’ll find a little lumpkalé
You haven’t got a prayerkalé
You’re starting to despairkalé
You hug your Pop goodbyekalé
You kiss your Mom and crykalé
Then, pow! You’re done, that’s itkalé
An end to your bullshitkalé.

// Requiem

Translated by Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

 

Photo of the set: Janjanski

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Illustrator: Liad Shiran | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Shhh… My son is sleeping, do not disturb him, he is creating the world now. A thin strand of saliva falls from his mouth to the ocean, and all the continents on either side await only him. Such is my son: anything less than a whole world, he will not dream of.

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College  illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations to short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work. 

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shiran

Exhibition Designer: Dar Lior

Trailer from "Murder" - Dusseldorf Schauspielhaus, Germany 2015
Dedi Baron | Israel

Who doesn’t want to make love,
Who doesn’t want to get married,
Who doesn’t want to have wine, music?
Who, after murdering, does not want
to till his garden
and stroke his children’s heads?

// Murder

Translated by: Jessica Cohen

 

Murder performed at the Dusseldorf Schauspielhaus in Germany, 2015, directed by the Israeli director Dedi Baron.

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Illustrator: Meytal Yehonatan | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Hollowed of all thoughts and feelings, I focus my life on the toe that moves up and down inside the shoe. If not for the wiggling of the toe, how would I fill the expanses of anticipation? ‘How’s life?’ you might ask – ‘Oh, not bad, just wiggling a toe’

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Quote from "Requiem"
Ni Dahong | China

Dear God, is there no one in the world I can discuss my agony with?

// Requiem

Translated by Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

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Set design for The Child Dreams, Israel 1993
Roni Toren | Israel

Let time stop now, at the height of happiness,
for better than this, it will never be;
let the three of us become a still life:
‘Parents watching a dreaming child.

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

Photo of the set: Pessie Gerish, courtesy of the HaBima Theatre archives

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Scene from "Suitcase Packers" – The Cameri Theatre, 2011
Udi Ben Moshe | Israel

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

// Suitcase Packers

Translated by Naaman Tammuz

Photo from "Suitcase Packers" directed by Udi Ben Moshe, at The Cameri Theatre in 2011

With the participation of: 
Set design: Ruth Dar
Costumes: Ofra Konfino
Lighting: Avi Yona Boano (Bamby)
Music: Keren Peles
Actors: Ezra Dagan, Rosina Cambos, Tamar Keinan, Odelia Morah-Matalon, Rivka Michaeli, Dror Keren, Avi Tarmin, Ohad Shahar, Gilat Ankori, Avi Grieinik, Chana Meron, Esti Kosovitzki, Udi Rothschild, Yoav Levi, Andrea Schwarz, Shlomi Avraham, Elana Bauer, Motty Katz, Rubi Moskovitz, and Shir Gadani
Musicians:  Salit Lahav, Avner, Mia Beltziman, Miki Varsai and Keren Peles

Photograph by Gadi Dagon, courtesy of The Cameri Theatre Archives

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Illustrator: Yarden Keidar | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Hollowed of all thoughts and feelings, I focus my
life on the toe that moves up and down inside the shoe.
If not for the wiggling of the toe, how would I fill the
expanses of anticipation? ‘How’s life?’ you might ask –
‘Oh, not bad, just wiggling a toe.’

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College  illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations to short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shiran

Exhibition Designer: Dar Lior

 

Illustrator: Noga Livni | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Ah, the child’s ability to reach the most secret place inside
us. As if children were our thinnest, most painful inner
fibers. As if there, in childhood, was the purpose, and it
was lost.

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College  illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations to short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shiran

 

Animation: Big Tuches
Animators: Ronny Shlev and Gil Michelvich | Screen-Based Arts Department - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Down down, at the end of my back,
A magnificent backside blooms,
And on either side of its delicate crack,
A pair of pink-coloured balloons.
Since the day I was born it’s been in tow,
In the folds of my dress it likes to hide;
Wherever I turn, wherever I go,
Big Tuches comes along for the ride.
I’ve waited to take Mlight for so long,
Up, in the sublime windy air,
But the only thing rising from the piano’s my song,
And I’m still seated in the chair.
Because down is where this backside wants to go,
And it won’t stop until I’ve died, Wherever I turn, wherever I go,
Big Tuches comes along for the ride

// Yaacobi and Leidental [Temporary title]

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

It is surprising, or maybe not so surprising, the extent of the freedom of animative expression that Levin’s quotes can inspire.
The projects created by 2nd year students in the Animation course at Bezalel depict an intensification of the relationship between the image and the written word.
The students were asked to create films based on quotes taken from Hanoch’s work.
Because the selection of quotes was intentionally limited, it was particularly interesting to discover the creative richness, the varied directions, and the personal interpretations that the projects expressed.
The projects shown here were produced as part of the coursework from two classes in 2018-2019. The works were mostly collaborations involving pairs of students.

Course instructor: Sharon Gazit.

Costume worn by The Woman who was Born for Love, from “The Child Dreams” –The Cameri Theatre, 1993
Roni Toren | Israel

child. The essence of our lives. The pith. Asleep, eh? Worlds collapsing around him and he is submerged, enfolded in the bubble of his dreams, breathing steadily, as though with his breath he bestows a certain order and meaning upon the chaos of our lives

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

The costume was designed for the play’s debut, which opened in 1993 at The Cameri Theatre, directed by Hanoch Levin

Pictured, from the play: Pessi Girash. Photo courtesy of the Habima Archives

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Illustrator: Hibaa Shihtot | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

The sweet days of summer are here,
Awash in joy we await,
The day is long, the night is far,
But already we start to fret:
Will summer be time enough? Will life be time enough?

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College  illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations to short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shiran

Exhibition Designer: Dar Lior

Walkers in the Dark | 1992

At night, hearts break. Like fine china, they tinkle, they crack, they shatter into shards. And who shall piece them together?

// Walkers in the Dark

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

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Illustrator: Nitzan Langers | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Nice word — ‘home.’ It has lots of meanings. White tablecloth, bread-roll, salami. ‘Home,’ says the sailor at sea. ‘Home’ — the soul to its Creator

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Poster from "The Child Dreams" - North Macedonia, 2019
Photographer: Aleksandar Bunevski | North Macedonia

Oh, children, you were born to break our hearts. You little people, funny gnomes in peculiar costumes, starryeyed,
innocent, askers of mad questions, plate-breakers, pants-wetters, monkeys that jump and run, get up and fall, candy-stealers with no limits or boundaries – you were born to strum our most secret strings, you were born to be irresistible to us, you were born simply to break our hearts

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

Performed at The National Theater of Bitola in Bitola, North Macedonia, directed by the Israeli Theatre director Itai Doron.

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Illustrator: Nahala Stern | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Nice word — ‘home.’ It has lots of meanings. White tablecloth, bread-roll, salami. ‘Home,’ says the sailor at sea. ‘Home’ — the soul to its Creator

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Trailer from "The Child Dreams" - North Macedonia, 2019
Director: Itai Doron | Israel

It’s not good for a person to have a face, it’s not good to meet someone’s eyes for more than an instant. Suddenly you know him, dammit, suddenly a person is standing in front of you

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

Performed at The National Theater of Bitola in Bitola, North Macedonia, directed by the Israeli Theatre director Itai Doron.

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Photo from "We Are Leaving" - Poland 2018
Magda Hueckel | Poland

Not that I’m under any illusions about London. London isn’t waiting for me. I’ll be alone there too, and maybe this time it’s for life – being alone. But in London there are more films on, good music, excellent television, more courteous people, so that the despair becomes more comfortable. You understand? If I’m going to end up like a dog, at least let the television be proper television

// Suitcase Packers

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

An adaptation of Hanoch Levin’s Suitcase Packers by the award-winning Polish director Krzysztof Warlikowski, first performed in 2018 at the Nowy Teatr theater in Warsaw, Poland.

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Illustrator: Roey Segal | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Nice word — ‘home.’ It has lots of meanings. White tablecloth, bread-roll, salami. ‘Home,’ says the sailor at sea. ‘Home’ — the soul to its Creator

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Submissive and Defeated | 1986

You are not all that mighty, I am not all that tiny. That’s the trouble—the middle. It’s the middle that will kill us

// Submissive and Defeated

Translated by: Jessica Cohen

Illustrator: Golan Ner Gaon | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Shhh… My son is sleeping, do not disturb him, he is creating the world now. A thin strand of saliva falls from his mouth to the ocean, and all the continents on either side await only him. Such is my son: anything less than a whole world, he will not dream of

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Photo from “Schitz” – Israel, 1989
Photo by: Yisrael Hermati | Israel

Hard times, Schprachtzi my girl, lock your backside up at home, preferably in a safe hungry men with axes are roaming the streets, they’ll finish off your rump fillet and you’ll have nothing left to offer when your man finally arrives

// Schitz

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

A picture from “Schtiz,” staged at The Cameri Theatre in 1989, directed by Aharon Almog.

From the playbill:

“Schitz”                                                                          

Greed and lust, gluttony and bullying, set in an Israeli family between the wars, with brief emotional breaks for the wars themselves.

Tsescha urges her daughter Schprachtzi to swallow a groom. Schprachtzi meets Tcharches, and want to swallow him. Tcharches yearns to swallow Schprachtzi together with her father Tcharches’s fortune. Tcharches, who has swallowed six-hundred cows to date, plots to swallow his son-in-law Tcharches. Schprachtzi and Tcharches swallow each other, and plan to vomit up Tcharches. Tsescha is prepared to help vomit her husband Tcharches on condition that they will allow her to swallow grandchildren, and a professor from Los Angeles. Tcharches and Schprachtzi are prepared to swallow Tsescha in order to vomit Tcharches, after which they will vomit her as well. War breaks out and swallows all in a giant gulp. Tcharches swallows the vomit of the war, and will soon swallow the businesses owned by the vomited Pepktaz. Another war breaks out which this time swallows Tcharches. Tcharches, the patriarch of the family, swallows all of the dead, and rises to his feet. //Hanoch Levin

 

With the participation of:

Set design and costumes: Roni Toren

Music: Shosh Reizman

Lighting: Shuli Ziv Asulin

Actors: Zahrira Harifai, Tchia Dannon, Avner Hezkiahu, Yitzhak Hezkiyahu

Photography: Yisrael Hermati.  Photo courtesy of The Cameri Theatre Archives

Illustrator: Yuval Farman | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

The sweet days of summer are here,
Awash in joy we await,
The day is long, the night is far,
But already we start to fret:
Will summer be time enough? Will life be time enough?

// The Child Dreams

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations of short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams, and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third-year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shira

Illustrator: Tal Friedlander | Department of Visual Communication - Bezalel Academy, Israel

Here we are, and the whole thing is very simple. The
moment in between when a ball is thrown up and when
it falls down: that is the moment. That is what it all
comes down to. How will it fall? On which side? Who
will catch it? This is the moment! This is the moment!

// The Constant Mourner

Translation: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg

 

From the exhibition: Illustrators Observe a Dreaming Child – students from the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College  illustrate Hanoch Levin.

The exhibition focuses on illustrative interpretations to short texts from Hanoch Levin’s plays, The Child Dreams and The Constant Mourner, both of which deal with children and childhood.

The illustrations were part of the coursework for “Illustration as an Interpretive Tool”, a class for third year students in the Illustration track in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel College, led by Professor Merav Salomon.

The exhibition was staged in the framework of the Translation Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, which in 2019 was devoted to Levin’s work.  

Participants in the exhibition: Lior Bar Noy, Uri Gold, Meytal Yehonatan, Noga Livni, Nitzan Langers, Golan Ner Gaon, Roey Segal, Yuval Farman, Tal Friedlander, Yarden Kedar, Rima Rovinov, Hiba Sachtot, Nahala Stern, and Liad Shiran

Exhibition Designer: Dar Lior

Poster from "Requiem" - China, 2019
Actor: Ni Dahong | China

Dear God, is there no one in the world I can discuss my agony with?

// Requiem

Translated by Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

Requiem directed by the Israeli director Yair Sherman, at Beijing, China, 2019.

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Trailer from "Bachelors and Bachelorettes" - Israel, 2019
Amit Epstien | Israel

There’s no wedding. Happiness was waiting for me just on the other side of the door – and it flew away.
With my own two hands. It’s nonsense. On one hand – it’s a shame. On the other hand – whatever. And what decides it? To build a house, raise a family, hunt mosquitoes next to a wife who’s fixing some socks? Or to be alone and free and fantasize about women’s backsides to my heart’s content? What’s right, what’s more real? What’s the dream
and what’s reality? What’s serious, what’s nonsense? If death is the ultimate purpose, then everything will become
a dream at some point, and so what could be better than already lying there alone and dreaming? On the other hand, if we’re just waiting for death, then why do it without a woman? Well, and again: On one hand eh, and on the other hand meh, and in the middle – me

// Bachelors and Bachelorettes

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

The production was directed by Amit Epstien and performed at the Gesher Theater in 2019

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Poster from "Walkers in the Dark" – The Seminar HaKibutzim Drama School 2021
Illustrator: Eyal Chirorag | Israel

Please understand that I can do nothing for you, I am only the narrator of this story, I am wind, air, I have no power to move even a crumb

// Walkers in the Dark

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

A poster from the play, Walkers in the Dark, directed by Tal Brenner, performed at the Seminar HaKibutzim Drama School in 2021.

With the participation of:

Lighting: Adam Keller

Original Musical Score: Itamar Gross

Choreography: Ariel Wolf

Costumes: Yehudit Alroei

Producer, Assistant Director: Omer Boulanger Cohen

Actors: Lior Aviviv, Carmel Avidan, Yehonatan Bason, Hila Godai, Danny Herziano, Yaniv Vinogradsky, Ron Yagerman, Adva Levi, Yael Sadan, Itai Samo, Yahel Papo, Gaia Kalam, Yovel Karsal, Assaf Sorek, Gili Ganani, Kobi Zislin, Gal Yakubovitz, Itai Porat

Set Design for "The Lost Women of Troy" - Israel, 1984
Roni Toren | Israel

It is as though there are two faces to him, to man: The first is the smooth face of a baby, nestled against its mother’s chest, asking for milk, a sweet, a caress, as though its entire world depended on a single drop of love. And the second, the face of a soldier returning from war, charred, smeared with blood, pouncing on the woman, the fruit of his plunder, tearing her flesh with terrible hatred and a hoarse growl, as though trying to put out a blazing fire within himself whose meaning he himself doesn’t understand

// The Lost Women of Troy

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

Photo of the set: Rachel Hirsh. Photo displayed courtesy of the Cameri Theatre 

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Photo from the playbill of “Requiem” –The Cameri Theater, 1999
Dror Keren | Israel

And once again I’m all alone. The sorrow that left me for a little while returns to cruelly crush my heart, so much so that I fear I will no longer be able to bear it. More than two weeks have gone by since he died and I still haven’t properly discussed his passing with anybody. The whole thing demands a serious conversation. You have to elaborate solemnly all about how he suddenly got sick, how he suffered, what his last words were, and then eventually how he died. And I have to discuss the funeral. There’s so much to say, and whoever’s listening will nod their head, give a sigh, maybe even shed a tear or two... Best thing would’ve been to tell women. They’re dumb, but boy can they cry

// Requiem

Translation: Lee Nishri and Leland Frankel

Photo of the tree used in the production of “Requiem”, from the playbill of the debut, directed by Hanoch Levin. The play was staged at The Cameri Theater in 1999. The sets and costumes from that legendary production were designed by Rakefet Levi.
 

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Photo from “A Winter Funeral” – Hong Kong, 2021
Directors: Li Guowei and Feng Weiheng | Hong Kong

You just pass gas. Same as you’ve always done. Only this time, not just one round or two, you just start releasing and don’t stop. And that way, very slowly but without stopping, in a silent evacuation, thin and continuous, you let out your soul until you’re completely empty. And there’s nothing left inside but a hollow space. That’s death.

// Winter Funeral

Translation: Naaman Tammuz

 

Photo from the play "A Winter Funeral", staged in 2021 at the Arts Centre Shouson Theatre in Hong Kong.

The photo appears courtesy of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. The photo taken by TR Concept and Visual Atelier

 

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