{"id":11237,"date":"2011-03-25T07:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2011-04-09T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T17:03:25","slug":"theatronetto-2011-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=11237","title":{"rendered":"Theatronetto 2011 – Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yoav Bartel - HaMarkid\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Theatronetto<\/strong>, <\/em>the monodrama festival, will take place this year from April 21 \u2013 23, 2011 in the Old City of Jaffa. The festival will celebrate its 21st year with 21 plays: 6 monodramas will participate in the annual competition, 4 plays for children, 5 international plays and 6 guest productions. In the Theatronetto Hyde Park tradition, students from the Kibbutz Seminar Theatre Department will explore the gap between vision and reality in the Israeli Declaration of Independence with outdoor installations, physical theatre and other happenings. HaMarkid (The Dance Instructor), the award winning monodrama by Yoav Bartel and Abigail Rubin<\/a>, will be the opening event of the festival.<\/p>\n

Monodramas participating in the Theatronetto Competition: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yael Toker - Nehmodet, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nehmodet (Sweetie Pie)<\/strong>, adapted from Anton Chekhov by Itzik Weingarten and Yael Toker Directed by Itzik Weingarten and performed by Yael Toker.<\/p>\n

The bittersweet adventures of Olinka, whose life only takes on color and meaning when she is in a relationship with a man.<\/p>\n

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Pnina Bart-Tzedaka - Cabaret Jabotinsky, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jabotinsky Cabaret<\/strong> written and directed by Gadi Tzdaka, performed by Pnina Bert.<\/p>\n

A day in the life of Leah, a nursery school teacher now in her eighties, not just any day, but her last day. Listening to the radio, she hears that the Prime Minister, who was once a child in her nursery school, intends to go to war. Leah packs a suitcase and a box of cookies and gets on a bus to let the Prime Minister know what\u2019s on her mind.<\/p>\n

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Tal Levi - Clumnikit, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clumnikit (Miss Useless)<\/strong> by Neta Shpigelman, Noa Kuler and Tal Levi, directed by Rotem Keinan and performed by Tal Levi.<\/p>\n

Sivan Shmueli is a shorter-than-average resident of Ramat Gan, with a bigger-than-average mouth, who will do anything to be different. That\u2019s why she can only really live in show business. She\u2019s been auditioning for years, but never gets the part. Yesterday she turned 30. Her parents offer her the worst gift of all and Sivan feels as if she has a gun to her head and the only way to save herself is to point it at someone else\u2026Sivan Shmueli is going to another audition, and this time she\u2019s going to make it.<\/p>\n

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Rinat Yona Gliko - Brit Bein HaBdalim, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brit Bein Habdalim (The Covenant Between Burnt Pieces)<\/strong> written and directed by Nano Shabtai, performed by Rinat Yona Gliko.<\/p>\n

12 year old Nurit really wants to spend a full day with her dad, who suffers from psychological damage incurred in the Yom Kippur War. Nurit\u2019s mother and her new husband cancel Nurit\u2019s plans at the last minute. On the morning of Yom Kippur, Nurit runs away, to fight for her right to a relationship with her father. The monodrama is an adaptation of Nano Shabtai\u2019s short story first published in the anthology Me\u2019ever Lasaf \u2013 Siporet Israelist Achshavit (Behond the Threshold \u2013 Contemporary Israeli Stories) published by HaKibbutz HaMeuhad 2003. The story was translated to French by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, and published in Metropolis, France 2008.<\/p>\n

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Kaifo Cohen - HaAlma Elsa, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HaAlma Elsa (Fra\u00fclein Else)<\/strong> by Arthur Schnitzler, translated and adapted by Edna Kornfeld, directed by Hillel Ne\u2019eman, performed by Kaifo Cohen.<\/p>\n

Elsa, an innocent and fragile Viennese miss with a stormy inner life, is sent by her parents to a hotel in a resort town in Italy. A letter from her mother disrupts her peaceful vacation \u2013 her father has lost funds belonging to orphans at roulette and the threat of imprisonment hangs over him. Elsa is instructed by her mother to turn to a friend of the family, an elderly rich man who is also staying at the hotel, to ask for his assistance. Elsa\u2019s world will never be the same.<\/p>\n

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Roni Gorenstein - Ze'adim, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ze\u2019adim (Steps)<\/strong> written and directed by Yadin Goldman, performed by Roni Gornstein.<\/p>\n

19 year old Or starts out as an excellent soldier and becomes a deserter, after making one wrong move. Taking hallucinogenic drugs she is swept away into a dark and lonely world, hitting rock bottom in the basement of the central bus station. Unconscious after accidentally OD\u2019ing, she is discovered by passersby and placed in a rehab center. At the end of her treatment she tells her tale to a committee of psychiatrists to convince them that she is well enough to be released.<\/p>\n

Monodramas participating in the Children\u2019s Competition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yael Zigdon - Or-Ly, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or-Ly <\/strong>by Ido Star, directed by Hadar Moshe, performed by Yael Zigdon.<\/p>\n

Aurelie is a ten year old French girl whose family comes to live in Israel for six months. But a few days before they are to return to France, her parents say that they have decided to extend their stay. Aurelie decides to steal her plane ticket and return to France on her own, but before first she tells her story to Alon, confessing her true motives.<\/p>\n

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Yehonatan Magon - Volfina Momi Blum, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Volfina Momi Blum<\/strong> by Nurit Zarhi, adapted and directed by Lahav Timor, performed by Yehonatan Magon.<\/p>\n

Momi, a 9 year old boy, writes letters to his neighbor, Aliza Shahaf, who is visiting family abroad and has left him her apartment and dog Lola to care for. Over the course of the summer Momi finds that Aliza is the only one in whom he can confide his stories and fears \u2013 his problems with his parents who are divorced, his mother\u2019s new boyfriend Dror and his father\u2019s approaching marriage. Momi grows and matures through this summer correspondence and discovers that he has the ability to speak out and effect changes in his own life.<\/p>\n

Mouse Soup <\/strong>by Arnold Lobel, adapted by Alon Goren and Omer Naot, directed and performed by Alon Goren.<\/p>\n

The weasel has decided to have mouse soup for dinner, but the mouse has other plans. He suggests putting four stories into the soup to make it tastier. Luckily, weasel is willing to listen to this suggestion and learns a lesson in spiritual sustenance.<\/p>\n

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Yogev Yefet - Samir and Yonatan, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Samir and Yonatan on Mars<\/strong> by Daniela Carmi, directed by Sivan Handelsman and performed by Yogev Yefet.<\/p>\n

11 year old Samir lives with his family on the West Bank. After injuring his knee as the result of a fall from his bike, he has to go to the \u201cJewish\u201d hospital. Samir\u2019s parents must return to their village, and he remains in the strange place, scared and alone. Then he meets his hospital roommates, and among them \u2013 Yonatan. Yonatan and Samir become friends and Yonatan promises to take Samir to another planet. After Samir recovers from his surgery, the two go up to the hospital roof where Yonatan shows Samir an amazing computer game that can take them to Mars.<\/p>\n

There will be five international guest productions: an adaptation of Sholem Aleichem\u2019s Stempinyu by the Yiddishpiel Theatre, performed by Elena Yerlova; Mouche, an adaptation of Paul Gallico\u2019s Love of Seven Dolls by Lane Cole from South Africa, performed by Timothy Redpath; an adaptation of Kurosawa\u2019s The Seven Samurais by Sara Rose Gerber, performed by David Gaines from the U.S.; Women in War by Patricia Lara, performed by Carlotta Yano from Columbia; and Bloodshed, Miracles, Deliverance, Good Food! a monodrama by Sara Brown about a Jewish American woman lost and drunk in the Jordanian desert and her journey to self-discovery.<\/p>\n

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Rami Baruch - Pollard's Trial, a Cameri Theatre Production, Theatronetto 2011\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There will be five Israeli guest productions: Hayim veAdam by Ran Gil; HaYerika-HaHazara by Yotam Reuveni; HaMarkid by Yoav Bartel; a premiere of the Cameri Theatre production of Pollard\u2019s Trial, performed by Rami Baruch; and an adaptation of Benny Barash\u2019s My First Sony performed by Roy Horowitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theatronetto, the monodrama festival, will take place this year from April 21 \u2013 23, 2011 in the Old City of Jaffa. The festival will celebrate its 21st year with 21 plays: 6 monodramas will participate in the annual competition, 4 plays for children, 5 international plays and 6 guest productions. In the Theatronetto Hyde Park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}