{"id":16369,"date":"2011-12-05T03:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=16369"},"modified":"2011-12-05T03:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:29:21","slug":"haifa-theatre-presents-art-by-yasmina-reza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=16369","title":{"rendered":"Haifa Theatre Presents Art by Yasmina Reza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Haifa Theatre will present <em>Art<\/em>, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Nissim Aloni and directed by Natan Datner. The first performance will take place on December 15, 2011. An entertaining intellectual comedy of art and friendship, Art premiered in Paris in 1994 and was soon translated into English and 34 other languages, with successful runs on London\u2019s West End, Broadway as well as performances world-wide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16370\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/art-gerard-alon-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16370\" title=\"art gerard alon small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/art-gerard-alon-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/art-gerard-alon-small.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/art-gerard-alon-small-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art\/Photo: Gerard Alon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 15 year friendship between three men is put to the test when Serge purchases an entirely white painting. Mark is shocked and the third friend Ivan is caught in the middle. Asking \u201cwhat is art\u201d as well as \u201cwhat is friendship\u201d the play touches on the concerns of many with wit and humor.<\/p>\n<p>The play was first produced in Israel by the Beit Lessin Theatre in 1996 with Yossi Banai, Sasson Gabai and Avi Uriah as the three friends. The current Haifa production features: Natan Datner as Mark, Ohad Knoller as Serge and Norman Issa as Ivan.<\/p>\n<p>Performances will take place at the Haifa Theatre, 50 Pevzner Street, Haifa on December 15, 17,18 &amp; 19, at 20:30. Tickets are 90 \u2013 180 NIS, to order call: 04-8600500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haifa Theatre will present Art, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Nissim Aloni and directed by Natan Datner. The first performance will take place on December 15, 2011. An entertaining intellectual comedy of art and friendship, Art premiered in Paris in 1994 and was soon translated into English and 34 other languages, with successful runs [&hellip;]<\/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-16369","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\/16369","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=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}