Tirza’s mother, Leah, passed away in the prime of her life after suffering from a heart ailment for many years. The mother’s death leaves a void in the lives of everyone around her, especially her thirteen-year old daughter Tirza. Sometime after her mother’s death, Tirza finds out about the ill-fated love story between her mother and Akavia Mazal. This discovery rattles Tirza’s world and sends her on a journey during which she herself will fall in love with Akavia Mazal.
“Thanks to a sensitive adaptation and excellent acting, [the show] expresses a wide range of emotions and is full of nuance… The adaptation has maximal sensitivity to the drama, as well as to the beauty of Agnon’s text, which is highlighted in such a subtle, exact, and true way” (Nano Shabtai, Haaretz)
“An intelligent combination of sparse text conserving the Agnon language alongside dynamic and modern directing… a beautiful and intelligent show…” (Shai Bar Yaacov, Yedioth Aharonoth)
Shahar Pinkas
Dramaturge at Habima National Theatre. Shahar holds an MA in Directing from the Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University. Writing and adapting: The Promised Land (in collaboration with Shay Pitowski, Habima Theatre), Meat, Ladies and Gentlemen (Herzliya Theatre Ensemble), My Father is Not a Bird (Israel Festival), Walk(wo)man (Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theater), Tehilah, The Overcoat, Kinneret Kinneret, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, In The Prime of Her Life (Jerusalem Khan Theatre), A Man Does Not Die in Vain, The Lover, Father Goriot, A Simple Story, Alone in Berlin (Habima Theatre), He Walked Through the Fields (Beit Lessin Theatre), and You Don’t Fight a Duel Nowadays (Beer Sheva Theatre; Rosenblum Prize for the Performing Arts, 2014). Shahar won the Israeli Theatre Award for best playwright in 2014 for A Man Does Not Die in Vain.
Shir Goldberg
In-house director at the Jerusalem Kahn Theatre. Shir holds an MA in Directing from the Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University. Works include: My Father is Not a Bird (Israel Festival), Don Giovani (Buchmann-Mehta School of Music), Meat, Ladies and Gentlemen (Herzliya Theatre Ensemble), Be Beautiful Cabaret (Israel Festival), Walk(wo)man (Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theater, 2006), Tehilah, The Overcoat, Kinneret Kinneret, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, In The Prime of Her Life (Jerusalem Khan Theatre), A Man Does Not Die in Vain, The Lover, Father Goriot, A Simple Story (Habima Theatre),The Adventures of Odysseus (Gesher Theatre), and You Don’t Fight a Duel Nowadays (Beer Sheva Theatre). Shir won the Israel Festival Award for most promising director for Be Beautiful Cabaret in 2006, and the award for best original play at Encounter Festival in Czechoslovakia in 2007 for the same play. She is the recipient of the Rosenblum Prize for the Performing Arts, 2014.