Short Theatre Festival December 2012

Home, time and war will be the central themes of this year’s Short Theatre Festival at Tsavta. Celebrating its 15th edition, the festival will be named the Erik Hoch Short Theatre Festival, in memory of Hoch, CEO of the Kibbutz Artzi Havazelet Foundation and an ardent supporter of Tzavta, who died two years ago. The festival will take place from December 26 – 29, 2012, under the artistic direction of Avi Malka. 9 plays have been selected by the artistic committee to premiere at the festival, each no longer than 15 minutes.

The festival will feature the 14/48 project, under the artistic direction of Roy Maliach Reshef, in which participants will write, cast, direct and perform very short (no longer than 10 min) plays within 24 hours – two evenings of 7 plays each. Complete details on  the 14/48 site.

The plays will be presented in three programs, with three plays in each, according to theme:

TIME

Six – by Yoav Hyman, inspired by a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Director: Muli Shulman; Performers: Evelyn Hagoel, Arie Tcherner. A woman, a bartender and a lost half hour – will they connect?

Chronicle of a Separation – by Debbie Katz. Director: Shuli Cohen; Music: Tam Elbaz; Performers: Avital Dikker, Iftach Katzor. A murder investigation leads a man and a woman through painful memories from their shared past.

Mechanism of Emotion – by Daniel Botzer and Harel Morad. Director: Denis Shema; Music: Yonatan Rosen and Yossi Mor; Performers: Meir Golan, Yonatan Rosen, Stav Sternberg. How does the mechanism of emotion function? Set sometime in the future…

HOME

It’s Not the Same Shade – by Shai Azulay. Director: Yaron Motola; Music: Shaul Besser; Performers: Yoav Bar-Lev, Boaz Conforti. A daily argument between two neighbors over a tree, reaches absurd proportions in a struggle over issues of neighbors, responsibility, justice and punishment.

Housewarming – by Itamar Sadeh. Director: Dor Zweigenbaum; Performers: Hava Tizazo, Yonatan Cherchi. An Israeli man and a woman who is an immigrant worker from Africa meet in an abandoned building. The former owns the place, the latter is living there – who is the trespasser?

Otiyot Ktanot (small print) – by Eli Haviv. Director: Jason Danino-Holt; Performers: Eli Haviv, Nili Rogel, Hezi Tzadik. A young couple comes to a new building. The new tenants visit an elderly tenant, and bring him a cake. But in a world where there isn’t enough room for everyone to find a place to live, is there room for everyone to live?

WAR

Berlin – by Roni Cuban. Director: Maya Shaya; Performers: Guy Loel, Michal Yanai, Razia Israeli, Oryan Bloch. A man, woman and child – on the night before the war. He wants to escape to Berlin, she is determined to stay.

The Biggest Theatrical Piece in the 21st Century – by Tal Zagreba. Director: Yael Tilman; Music: Raz Yehezkel; Performers: Eli Galperin, Rotem Nir, Shmulik Kalderon. Tal Zagreba is a failed playwright. He wants to give up writing once and for all, but his ambitions won’t let him. The struggle is internal; catastrophe inevitable.

Oh, Oh! Who is Coming!– by Tal Alkalay. Director: Noa Barkai; Performers: Sandra Shonwald, Maor Shvitzer. The entire family is waiting for the arrival of the Prime Minister. Will they bring out the red carpet? Will they shake his hand and have a photograph as a memento? Or perhaps, does he owe them something?

The full festival program is available on the Tzavta site: www.tzavta.co.il and tickets may be ordered online, or call: 03-6950156/7 ext. 2.

The Short Theatre Festival is produced by Tzavta with the support of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Sport – Culture Authority, the Tel Aviv Municipality and sponsored by Primor and City Mouse. Tzavta Director: Moshe Tene; Short Theatre Festival Founder: Shalom Shmuelov; Artistic Director: Avi Malka; Project 14/48 Director: Roy Reshef Maliach; Line Producer: Keren Mintzer-Hod. Members of the artistic committee include: Mitko Bozkov, Gedaliah Besser, Roberto Polk, and Ayala Korkus.