{"id":6426,"date":"2010-08-03T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2010-09-04T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T05:04:41","slug":"beit-lessin-open-stage-festival-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=6426","title":{"rendered":"Beit Lessin Open Stage Festival 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nadlan (Real Estate)\/Photo: Daniel Kaminsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Open Stage 2010, Beit Lessin\u2019s festival of Israeli plays, will take place on two consecutive weekends, August 26 \u2013 28 and September 2 \u2013 4 at ZOA House in Tel Aviv. Providing a platform for new Israeli plays for the past ten years, the Open Stage festival enters its second decade with an international collaboration \u2013 two plays created in collaboration with the Heidelberg Theatre will be performed, in addition to two full productions of Israeli plays and 6 stages readings of new plays. The festival will also host a speed date event featuring leading figures of Israeli theatre.<\/p>\n

Open Stage 10:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israeli Productions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy End by Ido Netanyahu, directed by Avishai Milstein
\nIdo Netanyahu, a doctor who divides his time between writing and medicine, has written his first play about a pair of of German Jewish intellectuals in denial of the approaching Holocaust. Performers: Ehud Shahar, Michal Levi, Dani Iserlish, Yedidya Vital, Dikla Hadar, Keren Siniuk, Dana Lerer.<\/p>\n

Nadlan (Real Estate) by Roni Koban, directed by Gili Amitai
\nA family drama about the fate of a house in the heart of Tel Aviv, whose owner, the matriarch of the family, is dying. Written by journalist Roni Koban, the play was presented in a staged reading in Open Stage 10 in 2009, and received a grant for development as well as the prize for audience favorite. Performers: Rivka Gur, Yoram Toledano, Kobi Livneh, Michael Hanegbi, Yael Hadar, Niso Keabiah, Efrat Liphshitz, Debbie Yablonka, Haike Malca.<\/p>\n

International Co-productions<\/strong>
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Family Ties<\/em> is a joint project of Beit Lessin Theatre and the Heidelberg Theatre in Germany.\u00a0 The project will consist of six collaboratively created plays that focus on the entwined destiny of Jews and Germans, based on personal and family stories. The two plays to be performed this year are:<\/p>\n

They Call Me Jeckisch
\n<\/strong>A group project directed by Nina G\u00fchlstorf, with Michael Hanegbi, Hadas Kalderon, Ute Bagger\u00f6hr and Frank Wiegard. The unique story of the \u201cJeckim\u201d: the immigrants from Germany who zealously maintained their German culture and had difficulty adjusting to the new life in Israel; living in a kind of cultural ghetto between two worlds.<\/p>\n

Undercover Tel Aviv
\n<\/strong>A docufiction created and directed by St\u00e9phane Bittoun<\/a>, with Dan Kastoriano, Michal Shtamler, Franzisca Beyer, Paul Grill. Four undercover agents are sent on a secret mission in Tel Aviv, yet they do not know its precise purpose.<\/p>\n

Staged Readings<\/strong>
\nEdmonton
\n<\/strong>\u00a0By Ron Gueta, directed by Jonathan Esterkin
\nAn impetuous investment in a high rise in Edmonton, Canada turns into a trauma that haunts the investor at every turn. Performers: Shifra Kornfeld, Ofer Schecter, Avi Hadash, Karin Ben Yaacov, Amitai Kedar, Rafi Kalmar.<\/p>\n

Hinei Oleh HaOr Meahorai (The Light Turns Upon Me)
\n<\/strong>By Oded Liphshitz, directed by Noam Shmuel
\nA group of young people in an apartment house seek love and happiness. Performers: Albert Cohen, Liat Har-Lev, Hila Zitoun, Ilanit Gershon, Dan Kastoriano, Dror Dahan, Alon Dahan, Tracy Avramovitz.<\/p>\n

HaShabbat HaShorah (The Black Shabbat)
\n<\/strong>By Guy Meroz, directed by Eldad Ziv
\nA small crime scheme snowballs into a storm of events involving criminals, police, TV stars, politicians, and even some vengeful romantic partners. Performers: Yael Levental, Uri Gavriel, Gadi Rabinovitz, Robi Moskowitz, Roni Belitz, Yaron Brobinsky.<\/p>\n

Too Much Sushi<\/strong>
\nBy Dani Radler, directed by Elinor Agam Ben-David
\nAn immigrant couple from Russia, a poet and artist\u2019s model, become entangled in contemporary Israeli high society. Performers: Marina Shveif, Hadas Moreno, Hagit Ben Ami, Vladimir Friedman, Nadav Asoulin.
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A Sweet Future
\n<\/strong>By Shelly Naidich, directed by Keren Tsur
\nA young woman is tired of her job in a high-tech company and embarks on a sweet and sensual career as a maker of chocolates, much to her partner\u2019s dismay. Performers: Efrat Boimwald, Alon Padut, Hen Danon, Ofir Weil.
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A Roaring Silence<\/strong>
\nBy Andrea Bauav, directed by Ori Egoz
\nA complaint of a hit and run turns into a witch hunt, during which the complainant encounters corruption in the upper echelons of the judicial system and government. Performers: Mali Levi, Dina Blay, Alex Peleg.<\/p>\n

Speed Date<\/strong>
\nAudience members will have the opportunity for a t\u00eate a t\u00eate with leading figures in Israeli theatre, for five minute sessions each, over the course of an hour. Participants will include:\u00a0 Zipi Pines, Efraim Sidon, Savyon Leibrecht, Oded Kotler, Goren Agmon, Yigal Naor, Gilat Ankori, Zipi Shohat, Hayim Sela, Shlomo Moskowitz, Uri Vidislevsky, Boaz Gaon, and Roni Koban.<\/p>\n

Grants for further development will be awarded to outstanding plays selected from the six staged readings. These grants are funded by the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation. There will also be a prize awarded to the audience favorite. Open Stage is made possible through the support of the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation, the Marc Rich Foundation, Friends of Beit Lessin, Tel Aviv Municipality and the Ministry of Culture. Avishai Milstein is the festival\u2019s artistic director and it is produced by the Beit Lessin theatre, whose director is Zipi Pines. Family Ties is supported by the German government, the Baden-Wirtemberg Regional Government, the Municipality of Heidelberg, the Goethe Institute, the Minister of Foreign Affairs \u2013 Kashtum and private donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Open Stage 2010, Beit Lessin\u2019s festival of Israeli plays, will take place on two consecutive weekends, August 26 \u2013 28 and September 2 \u2013 4 at ZOA House in Tel Aviv. Providing a platform for new Israeli plays for the past ten years, the Open Stage festival enters its second decade with an international collaboration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6426","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\/6426","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}