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Archive 2007

Theatre events

Mr. Traralon
Julian Tuwim children's cabaret

A story about a nightingale that arrives late for a dinner, about cows flying above a pink meadow, about a rebellious hen, about a goblin looking for a whale and other wonders from the imagination of one of the greats of Polish poetry, Julian Tuwim.

Israel Gurion – poet and director – directs a play that is full of joy of life and love of the world of children. Mutual production of Seminar Hakibbuzim drama school and the Polish Institute

Translation: Hava Ortman, Beniamin Tene, Efraim Sidon and Szoszana Raczinski
Director: Israel Gurion
Set design and costumes: Nava Shtar
Original music: Hilit Rozental and Roy Calderon
Choreography: Israel Gurion and Adi Paz
Lighting: Hani Vardi

Participants:
Moran Argentro, Na’ama Armon, Shlomi Ben Atar, Tali Hirshfeld, Rotem Miterani, Roy Calderon, Shahar Or Kempel, Yuval Shlomovits

Holon Mediatheque, 6, Golda St. – The Black Box Hall

A week of performances during the Hanukka Holidays:

Wednesday,   December 5                              17:30
Thursday,      December 6                              17:30
Friday              December 7                              11:00                     12:30
Saturday        December 8                              11:00                     17:30
Sunday           December 9                               11:00                     12:30
Monday          December 10                             11:00                     12:30

To order tickets call: 03 – 5021555    www.mediatheque.org.il

Price: NIS 50
Discount for friends of the Polish Institute   (40 NIS)

 


 

Performance Magnolia by the Dada von Bzdülow Theatre in the framework of the International Contemporary Dance Festival Tel Aviv Dance
October 20-21

Directed by: Leszek Bzdyl
Choreography and dance: Katarzyna Chmielewska nad Leszek Bzdyl

The title’s magnolia is a delicate flower which doesn’t stand a chance of surviving in the harsh Polish climate. It blossoms at the first whiff of heat and vanishes in a matter of twio days. The performance tells the story of the ephemeral character of human relations, relations beween man and woman, and of feelings which require attention and care just like an exotic flower.

October 20-21, at 21:00, The Suzanne Dellal Center, Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv

Tickets: 03-5105656, detailed information: http://www.suzannedellal.org.il

 

 


 

This is not about loveCinema Theatre at the Acco Festival
September 30 – October 2

Four men in suits live and work in high tin sheds. They struggle with existence in a peculiar whirlwind of repeating activities at a vague dividing line betwen life and death. It’s fascinating and....frighteningly hilarious.

Sunday, September 30, at 18:00
Monday, October 1, at 11:40 and 22:15
Tuesday, October 2, at 13.20 and 16:40
The Knights’ Hall B, Old City of Acco

Tickets: 04-9552548/9, price NIS 70,- additional info: www.accofestival.co.il

 


 

May 29, 30 and 31, at 20:30 at the Tmuna Theatre in Tel Aviv
Play „Billiards” by the Michałowice Cinema Theatre


The Theater Association „Teatr Cinema” was founded in 1992 by a group of actors and visual artists. The main objective of the group was to focus on the side products of mass culture, or, as defined by the group founder, director and set designer Zbigniew Szumski „to let fantasy rebel against the repetitive, the all too well-known and safe reality”. The style of the Cinema Theatre is inspired by the surrealistic and the theatre of the absurd in that it combines scenic movement with set designing.
The performance „Billiards” takes up the issue of the existential paradox, of the will to live even at the price of alienation. The play is based on movement and theatrical signs. Words and choreography have been reduced to a minimum.

 

Additional information about the Cinema Theatre at http://www.teatrcinema.pl  

The Tmuna Theatre, Shontzino 8, Tel Awiv, tel: 03-562 94 62, www.tmu-na.org.il
Ticket prices - NIS 65, (NIS 50 for guests of the Polish Institute)
The counter is open:
On Sunday through Thursday between 10:00 and 20:00
On Friday between 10:00 and 16:00
 



 


“Old Spice Girls” or ‘Sisters-Brothers”
February 24, 2007, at 8:30pm in the framework of the International Festival of Women Creation in Holon

Polish women today, seen in the eye of the satire. They are wise but also unbearably nonsense, they manage great companies, but do not know to cross the street.
Cabaret evening about how Polish women get around in old-new Poland. Prologue and finale of the evening are parodies of the well known band “Old Spice Girls”, sung and danced by the whole female cabaret, composed of: Emilia Krakowska, Ewa Kuklinska, Barbara Wrzesinska.
Texts by Tuwim, Hemar, Jeroszynski, Czubaszek, Korpolewski.

Yad Le’Banim Theater, Sd. Kugel 11, Holon, tel. 03 502301-3


First Reading
January 19, 2007, at 12.00, The Cameri Theater, Sd. Shaul Ha’Meleh 19, Tel Aviv
In collaboration with the Polish Institute, Tel Aviv University and The Cameri Theater

Actors of The Cameri Theatre will read, translated into Hebrew, a play by Jerzy Pilch “The Holy Father’s ski”

The place of the play is a pre-mountain contemporary little town called Granatowe Gory (Navy-blue Mountains). Its inhabitants are electrified by the news of a pretended pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II to their place, where in his early youth we would ski and, who knows, he may come for a longer visit…
The protagonists of the play are charismatic, outstanding characters. Rumours of the Pope’s arrival incline them to over-qualify their own lives and to make chaotic attempts to comply with moral standards contained in Pope’s teachings. It naturally leads to many comical events. The playwright tries to settle his accounts with the Polish Catholicism in which there are more empty rituals than praying concentration, he also tries to understand the phenomenon of Pope, loved by Poles, and also respected as moral leader.

Jerzy Pilch – prosaist, publicist, awarded several times, nominated for the most important Polish literature Award NIKE which he obtained in 2001 for his novel “Under Strong Angel”. He wrote his play in 2004 at the order of the National Theater.

Ticket price 20 NIS, at the Theatre boxes, tel. 03 6060960

 

 

 

 

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