{"id":2988,"date":"2023-10-04T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2023-12-05T00:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:28:23","slug":"what-happened-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/what-happened-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raziya, a seventy-year-old woman who lives on a moshav, and whose dream is basically to have another grandson or two, embarks on a mission to save her son\u2019s marriage, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after he leaves home following a bitter argument with his wife.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She drags her husband Yitzhakal\u2019e along on a crazy adventure of two <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">innocent<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> moshav dwellers in the big city. She isn\u2019t particularly healthy, nor is she young, but her maternal worries give her strengths of which she herself was unaware.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new comedy by Gur Koren (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romeo and Mom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Fight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) sets a collision course between a woman who just wants to see her family happy, and her kids, the younger generation, who might be ruling the world, but don\u2019t necessarily know what to do with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recipient of the Tamar Rudich Award for Playwright of the Year, and the Rabinovich Foundation Yosef Millo Award for Director of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/871202367?h=0fc4eec86a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Gur Koren<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the dramaturg of The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, and a recipient of the Israeli Theatre Awards Playwright of the Year, 2014. Writing credits include: at<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Fight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romeo and Mom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (written with Gilad Kimchi); at Beit Lessin Theatre,<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Actress<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Disabled<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Israeli Theatre Awards Comedy of the Year); and at Gesher Theatre,<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Kilos of Sugar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (directed by Yevgeny Arieh). Plays performed abroad: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Disabled<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teatro Sala Umberto, Rome, Italy; Kladno Municipal Theatre, Czech Republic; and Wort und Spiel Ensemble, Switzerland. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Kilos of Sugar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainfranken Theatre W\u00fcrzburg, Germany; and Teatr Dramatyczny, Bialystok, Poland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tamar Keenan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a theatre director, playwright, translator, dramatist, and the winner of the Yosef <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milo Award for Best Director in both 2022 and 2023. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fresh out of Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, Tamar joined the world-famous Gesher Theatre. She was a prominent member of the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv for eighteen years before embarking on her directing career. Since 2016, she has directed over a dozen plays in Israel\u2019s leading theatres. Tamar also serves as artistic director for Tzavta Theatre in Tel Aviv, and as co-artistic director of the theatre\u2019s celebrated One Act Play Festival. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raziya, a seventy-year-old woman who lives on a moshav, and whose dream is basically to have another grandson or two, embarks on a mission to save her son\u2019s marriage, after he leaves home following a bitter argument with his wife.\u00a0 She drags her husband Yitzhakal\u2019e along on a crazy adventure of two innocent moshav dwellers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":2990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,19,29,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}