Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
Based on the book The Road to Ein Harod, by Amos Kenan
An adaptation for a puppet, a camera, and half a ton of salt
Premiered at ha Zira theater, 2014
Suddenly
Suddenly
Based on Etgar Keret’s book of short stories
Suddenly, a Knock at the Door
Premiered at the Cameri Theatre, 2017
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STEP- scenes from the history of humankind
Itim Ensemble presents a new theatrical production inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book ‘Sapiens’.
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Matt
The first adaptation of its kind for adults, based on Janusz Korczak’s 1923 children’s allegory “Little King Matty and the Desert Isle.”
“Why does a king exist? To live in a palace? To sit on a special chair? To wear a crown?”
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Gulliver
Gulliver
Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s four-part book
Premiered at haZira theater, 2017
King Lear
King Lear decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom among his three daughters—his only heirs—while still alive.
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Hamlet
The question whether to revenge or not to revenge (his father’s death), how, when or if at all, becomes the question of “to be or not to be” – doubt and delays of action are the tools to contemplation and resolve.
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Woyzeck
The show takes place in the doctor’s laboratory, which is a joint enterprise with the army, where Woyzeck serves. The soldiers are medical students.
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Romeo and Juliet
In this production, I chose to multiply the protagonists (4 couples) in order to emphasize Romeo and Juliet’s characters as essences rather than as psychological entities.
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The Bible Project
The biblical text as it was written. The adaptation is done in short and sometimes the sequence of events is altered to give a different perspective on the event. For example, “Genesis” and the Ten Commandments conclude Part I.
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Mythos
The adaptation consists of a selection of Greek plays dealing with the house of Atreus, a royal family in conflict with its fate, which forces on it a chain of revengeful acts.
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Three Sisters
This play is an invitation to re-examine theatre in a different way – how to construct the human events that are weaved in the narrative’s fabric, and how to endow it with the experience of Time – objective and subjective time – that is, Time that is indifferent to out lives’ affairs and keeps moving on.
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The Dybuk
Any religion whatsoever persuades the believer there is only one course to redemption, and all other ways are wrong.
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Herzl
A playwright who invented a state. Hungarian by birth, Jewish by religion, Austrian by citizenships, and a would-be Prussian nobleman by his own aspiration.
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Krapp’s last tape
In an era when more than ever it’s all about documenting and being documented, Krapp could be any one of us.
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Exit the King
The eternal recurring questions are: How to die? When to die? Who decides our death? How to define the moment when a person is regarded by the living as good as dead?
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Peer Gynt
The adaptation’s storyline begins with old Peer Gynt on top of a ship in a stormy sea. He’s returning, destitute, to his homeland after 50 years of wandering.
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Endgame
What is man? What is life? These are the questions asked here, on the finish line of life. We watch the trickle of sand in the hourglass.
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Timon of Athens
In the stage adaptation, apart from reducing roles due to cuts in the ensemble’s budget, we tried to focus on those characters who lead the movement towards Timon’s downfall and madness.
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