{"id":3145,"date":"2024-11-30T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T12:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2025-01-15T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:51:14","slug":"stempenyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/stempenyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Stempenyu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stempenyu is a gifted violinist who plays with his klezmer band at weddings. He is known not only as a player who enchants listeners with his sounds, but also as a heartbreaker. When he falls in love with the beautiful and married Rachel, the story gets complicated. Stempenyu\u2019s wife doesn\u2019t intend to give him up for a moment, but the beautiful Rachel also wants him, forever. Edna Mazya has woven a beautiful and touching play, with colorful characters, all of whom want to fulfill themselves through Stempenyu and his music. A free adaptation of the classic Yiddish novel from 1888 by Sholem Aleichem, one of the greatest Jewish writers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1037974553?h=19385aa011&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edna Mazya<\/strong> (1949-2023) was a playwright, director, screenwriter, and author. She held an MA in Philosophy and Theatre Studies from Tel Aviv University. Her credits include \u2013 writing: Games in the Back Yard, Vienna by the Sea, The Rebels, Aristocrats, A Couple, and Pregnancy, inspired by Lorca\u2019s Yerma; writing and directing: Herod, Bad Kids, A Family Romance, The Nouveau Criminals, and The Back Room; directing: numerous plays by the highly esteemed playwright, the late Anat Gov: Oh, God!, Best Friends, Happy End, and others. Mazya\u2019s award-winning plays have been repeatedly produced and performed in Israel and around the world. She wrote screenplays for Amos Gutman\u2019s films, Afflicted, Bar 51, and Himmo, King of Jerusalem. She published two novels and four children\u2019s books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ronnie Brodetzky<\/strong> is a director and writer. She graduated from Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (Directing), and from the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Tel Aviv University (MA). She is a recipient of the 2020 Rosenblum Performing Arts Award. Her works include, at The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv: Tartuffe, Birthday Candles (Heidel), Hubeza \u2013 Etgar Keret\u2019s stories with The Revolution Orchestra; Haifa Municipal Theatre: Aquarium \u2013 young actors lip sync elderly people in a swimming pool, How to Get Up From A Chair \u2013 an original play based on instructional YouTube videos, Circus of Jews (an adaptation of Nathan Englander); Beer Sheva Municipal Theatre: Short Circuit by Noa Lazar Keinan; Salzburger Landestheater: Aquarium, 1000 Tutorials, WhatsApp Stories; and Tzavta Theatre: Typing&#8230;. \u2013 a play based on original WhatsApp conversations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1045148047?h=aaca653a3a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stempenyu is a gifted violinist who plays with his klezmer band at weddings. He is known not only as a player who enchants listeners with his sounds, but also as a heartbreaker. When he falls in love with the beautiful and married Rachel, the story gets complicated. Stempenyu\u2019s wife doesn\u2019t intend to give him up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,32,25,38,26,13],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-based-on-literature","tag-comedy","tag-israeli-classic","tag-original-formats","tag-the-jewish-syndrom","tag-womens-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}