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Gica Manescu – Teatre, spectacole si actori

Posted on September 7, 2011 by admin

Impartasesc cu mare placere un nou episod cu tenta memorialistica semnat de doctorul Gica Manescu. Gica implineste la sfarsitul saptamanii viitoare 95 de ani, si este o buna ocazie sa ii urez ‘La Multi Ani!’ ——– Copil find ma bucuram … Continue reading →

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‘Post Trauma’ at Habima

Posted on July 3, 2011 by admin

Habima, The National Theater of Israel did not yet return home during this season despite the promises made last fall. Something about construction or safety permits, an example probably of the traditional mix of bureaucracy and inefficiency which makes so … Continue reading →

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‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Cameri Theater

Posted on June 23, 2011 by admin

‘What’s in a name?’ asks Romeo in one of the best known monologues in Romeo and Juliet and in the whole history of theater. What’s in the title of a play that any viewer knows about since school, whose every … Continue reading →

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‘Woyzeck’ at the Cameri Theater

Posted on June 19, 2011 by admin

I remember too little from the performance I must have seen more than 40 years ago with Buchner‘s ‘Woyczeck’ at the Bulandra Theater in Bucharest, by the time when Liviu Ciulei and Lucian Pintilie dominated the Romanian theater in a … Continue reading →

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Theater Evenings in Paris

Posted on June 17, 2011 by admin

We spent five out of the eight evenings of our Parisian vacation at the theater. Paris is of course a city of great tradition on this respect, with tens of options every evening and the problem for the occasional visitor … Continue reading →

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‘The Human Scale’ in Tel Aviv

Posted on May 22, 2011 by admin

It is a remarkable coincidence that ‘The Human Scale’ written and acted on stage by the Pulitzer winner journalist Lawrence Wright from The New Yorker and brought to stage by director Oskar Eustis for the New York Public Theater was … Continue reading →

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Brecht’s ‘Caucasian Chalk Circle’ at the Cameri Theatre

Posted on May 6, 2011 by admin

Brecht would have liked the way the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv approached his ‘Caucasian Circle’, despite the fact that it departs in many moments from the text he has written. He was himself more interested by the political engagement … Continue reading →

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Moliere’s ‘Don Juan’ at the Gesher Theatre

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin

I have seen last Saturday the most recent play brought to stage at the Gesher Theater in Jaffo – Moliere’s Don Juan under the direction of the Bulgarian guest director Alexander Morfov.  Although it does not reach the peak levels … Continue reading →

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Gogol’s ‘Revizor’ at the Gesher Theater

Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

Gogol’s Revizor (The Inspector General as translated in English here) is one of these few great plays in the universal theater repertoire that has the potential of becoming inflammatory and subversive material for any society in any time. The combination … Continue reading →

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Theater: “Sheindale” at Beit-Lessin

Posted on January 30, 2011 by admin

Sheindale is a remake performance of a play which more than twenty years ago opened a trend and created a genre in the Israeli theater – plays dedicated to the life and conflicts in the closed ultra-religious (haredi) society in … Continue reading →

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