{"id":23940,"date":"2013-01-01T02:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=23940"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:05:30","slug":"nissan-nativ-jerusalem-performs-kohouts-poor-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=23940","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Nativ Jerusalem Performs Kohout’s Poor Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nissan Nattiv Acting Studio Jerusalem will present Pavel Kohout’s play Poor Murderer<\/em>, translated by Polina Kanevsky, adapted and directed by Misha Luria.<\/p>\n

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Poor Murderer\/Photo: Asher Svidansky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Set in a hospital for “nervous disorders” where Kerzhentsev, a famous actor is being treated after a breakdown during a performance of Hamlet. The treatment is as unusual as the disorder: a troupe of actors are called in to recreate the circumstances of the incident, according to a play written by Kerzhentsev, very much \u00e0 la Hamlet<\/em>. The question remains: did he do the deed?<\/p>\n

Novelist, poet and playwright Kohout (b. 1928) was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia who became one of the exponents of the Prague Spring and a dissident who was banned from working in official theatres. He formed the Living-Room Theatre Company with other dissident theatre workers, their underground production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth provided the inspiration for Tom Stoppard’s play Doog’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth<\/em>. Kohout was exiled to Austria in the 1970s. Poor Murderer<\/em> is based on the short story Mysl<\/em> (Thought) written by Leonid Andreyev, and was produced on Broadway in 1976.<\/p>\n

Performance dates and venues:<\/p>\n

Nissan Nativ Studio, Jerusalem – 17 Elazar Hamodai Street, Jerusalem, 02-6733414.
\nJanuary 5th at 20:30; January 6th at 20 :30; January 7th at 20:30; January 8th at 20:30; January 9th at 20:30.<\/p>\n

Lola Hall, Tzavta Theatre, 30 Ibn Gvirol Street, Tel Aviv, 03-6950156\/7.
\nJanuary 11th at 12:00.<\/p>\n

Link to facebook event page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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