PechaKucha (“chit-chat” in Japanese) is a dynamic format of presentation. Each speaker has 4 minuets to speak, with 20 slides that stay on screen for only 20 seconds. It’s quick, fun and interesting. So, get your note taking tools ready, steady – go!
Companion Plot - Comic drama
Be’er Sheva Theatre
Hannah, 60, a religious Jewish widow, discovers that an unknown woman has been buried in the plot she had reserved for herself beside her beloved late husband. Her struggle to reclaim her place brings her together with Hanna Haddad, a widowed Palestinian lawyer from Jaffa, and ultimately leads to a surprising new partnership.
Photo by: Maayan Kaufman
My Sleeping Beauty – Comic drama
Acco Theatre Centre
An Israeli production of Finist, the Bright Falcon. The play tells the story of Russian women who were deceived and manipulated into marrying ISIS terrorists. The Israeli cast consists of six actresses, most of whom fled Russia and Ukraine over the past four years
Photo by: Rami Shlush
A Slice of Life – Comic monodrama
Nephesh Theatre
A pizza delivery guy brings an order to the wrong address and finds himself alone on a theatre stage. While waiting for a ride home Shon Mongoose tells his biography: fleeing civil war in Congo and building a life in Israel. Through hip-hop, drumming and humour he turns trauma into art.
Photo by: Raday Rubinstein
Mending the World – Social satire
Knafayim Theatre Tel Aviv
At a chromosome factory, work people who love their jobs and, above all, love themselves. But once again, someone wants to shut their factory down, because when there is one extra chromosome, a syndrome is born: a Down syndrome, with no “ups”!
Photo by: Nurit Mozes
Fatherhood – Documentary Movement Theatre
To be or not to be a father? Three men take the stage: an expectant father, a young father and a grandfather. Based on over 50 real-life interviews and told through movement, the performance moves between humour and intimacy, tenderness and chaos. It reveals the gap between the fathers we are and the fathers we always dreamed of becoming.
Photo by: Hagar Bader
The Woman Who Mistook Her Husband for a Chair – Dark comedy
A woman comes home to find her husband in an armchair, silently flicking through TV channels. She tries to reach him, but he won’t react. A call from the bank reveals he has gambled away their savings, and they’re bleeding money by the minute. She must snap him out of it and stop the bet, by any means necessary.
Photo by: Efrat--Mazor Photography
Burnt house Diaries – Monodrama
Jaffa Theare
A personal, political, theatrical and musical journey into the world of a nerdy girl growing up in the margins of Israeli society, born to parents who were the only Mizrahi hippies in the neighborhood. A one-of-a-kind performance: Bob Marley, Yemenite soup, school, prison, innocence of childhood and the lies of addiction. Funny, painful, and poetic.
Photo by: Eliya Benisti
Malala – Monodrama
Elmina Theatre
In a classroom in London, seventeen-year-old Malala stands accused before a board marked with a red graffiti. Thus begins a thrilling journey to the Swat Valley in Pakistan to a childhood both colourful and perilous, filled with kites, secret nighttime chats with boys and the fateful day she was shot point blank for simply insisting to go to school.
Photo by: Aviad Fuchs
Re:Play – From Film to Stage – Orchestral performance
The Revolution Orchestra’s Re:Play is an original format that transforms audiovisual archives into living, boundary-pushing theatre. An interdisciplinary hub, where live orchestration, physical theatre, and screen create a dialogue. The format generated six hit productions since 2019. Its international flagship is The Passion of Monty Python, an absurd musical circus from the troupe’s iconic archives with their blessing.
Photo by: Moshe Chitiat