All Plays
2017

Pawns

Year2017
VenueTmunah Theater, Tel Aviv — Working Group Theater Ensemble

Noam, an unemployed academic scholar, gets a job working for a mysterious couple who demand he treat them as if they were the Prime Minister and the First Lady of Israel.

At first, Noam refuses to participate in this ridiculous madness. However, this game of power seduces him too, finding himself playing a leading role in conflicts of imagined international proportions.

As the game continues, political crises sweep through the house. When make-believe conflicts intensify to existential proportions, Noam finds himself immersed in a fantasy he helped to create — the same fantasy that gradually takes control over the lives of the characters.

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Ma'ariv
“A relentless farce, where every laughter instigates another... Our lives here never seemed more truthful on stage.”
Dana Shukhmacher
The Marker, Haaretz
“Such a clever satire... we not only recognize the characters and their real-life counterparts but move between laughter and pain. Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and deceit.”
Yoki Levi