The Israel Festival 2013 in Jerusalem: Multidisciplinary Performances

About This Event

The Israel Festival 2013: four weeks of performances by performers from Israel and abroad!

23.05.2013 – 26.06.2013

The Israel Festival is the largest and most important international arts and cultural festival in the land and has chosen Jerusalem as its eternal home (save for a few scattered events in other cities).

For more information about the festival and to order tickets visit the festival’s official website.

Multidisciplinary Performances

Baby Faust

Center Stage Festival

21.5.2013 | 19:00 | Gerard Bechar Center 23.5.2013 | 19:00 | Gerard Bechar Center


Entry Wound – Cinematic Theater

Center Stage Festival

22.5.2013 | 19:00 | Gerard Bechar Center 23.5.2013 | 21:00 | Gerard Bechar Center


Jean Genet Son of a Bitch

Center Stage Festival

23.5.2013 | 19:00 | Gerard Bechar Center 23.5.2013 | 21:00 | Gerard Bechar Center

The Israel Festival is proud to present: Center Stage! Festival

This is the fourth year of Center Stage!, featuring fourteen new challenging and thought-provoking monodramas. The festival runs for two and a half weeks.

This project was made possible by the Jerusalem Foundation, in cooperation with the Gerard Behar Center and under the artistic directorship of Ori Egoz.

Jean Genet Son of a Bitch

Written and performed by: Zion Ashkenazi

Director: Gur Koren

The tale of a thief, novelist, playwright, a whore son of a bitch, who dreams of being a murderer.

Ticket are on sale at the Gerard Behar box office, tel. 02-6251139

The Israel Festival thanks the Jerusalem Foundation for its ongoing support of the Israel Festival.


MIND THE GAP

23.5.2013 | 20:00 | First Station Hangar23.5.2013 | 22:45 | 25.5.2013 | 20:30 | The Jerusalem Theatre Plaza 25.5.2013 | 22:45 | The Jerusalem Theatre Plaza 29.5.2013 | 18:30 | Holon Mediatheque 30.5.2013 | 22:15 | The Jerusalem Theatre Plaza 30.5.2013 | 22:15 | The Jerusalem Theatre Plaza 1.6.2013 | 20:30 | 1.6.2013 | 23:00 | 7.6.2013 | 13:00 | The Jerusalem Theatre Plaza 7.6.2013 | 15:45 | The Jerusalem Theatre Plaza

The Israel Festival commissioned this multi-actor outdoor show, which brings magic and mystery to the First Station. The show includes dance, circus acts, large puppets, and music, which are woven together create a beautiful, warped picture of a distant, touching fantastical world.

The show’s name comes from the reminder to passengers to “mind the gap” between the train and platform. The distance between these realities is only one step, but it contains plenty of magic. We have dreamt about taking that step and entering a world of fantasy.


Diary of a Brazilian

Center Stage Festival

24.5.2013 | 12:00 | Gerard Bechar Center

The Israel Festival is proud to present: Center Stage! Festival

This is the fourth year of Center Stage!, featuring fourteen new challenging and thought-provoking monodramas. The festival runs for two and a half weeks.

This project was made possible by the Jerusalem Foundation, in cooperation with the Gerard Behar Center and under the artistic directorship of Ori Egoz.

Dairy of a Brazilian

Written and performed by: Avner Faingulernt

Artistic consultant: Shlomi Elkabetz

In the aftermath of his father’s death, an Israeli movie director embarks on a journey to discover his identity and find meaning to his life.

Ticket are on sale at the Gerard Behar box office, tel. 02-6251139

The Israel Festival thanks the Jerusalem Foundation for its ongoing support of the Israel Festival.


Igloo

24.5.2013 | 14:00 | 24.5.2013 | 16:00 |

Written and Directed by Yehezkel Lazarov

Writer and director: Yehezkel Lazarov

Performed by: Alon Friedman, Shiri Gadni

Set and costumes: Anat Meruc Kapan and Yehezkel Lazarov

Lighting: Danya Zamir

Sound editing: Rotem Dror

Assistant director: Tali Regev

Rafi has always secretly loved Leni. As a child, he was the sole witness to the abuse that Leni suffered from her father. For three years, Rafi has been following his beloved and has detected criminal intentions towards her father. He invites her to travel with him to Alaska.

Rafi and Leni’s story moves through time while portraying the emotional trauma of the characters, who share a childhood memory. Between fire and ice, memory and imagination, the igloo emerges as a safe space in their dreams of revenge.

Seats are unmarked

The production thanks the Bikurey Ha’Itim multidisciplinary art center


Ada Till Death

Center Stage Festival

Sat., May 25, 22:00 | Gerard Bechar Center

Created by Raz Weiner and Neta Weiner

An evening of testimonials. Ada, a survivor of WWII and a partisan fighter, offers the audience anauthentic performance of spoken word from that era, alongside more contemporary rap.


Wanted Educated Young Man and Discouraged

Center Stage Festival

Sun., May 26, 19:00, 21:00 | Gerard Bechar Center

Written and performed by: Efim RinenbergA play about a successful author who has a family, is wealthy, smart, and good-looking. He sits alonein a Parisian hotel room and tries not to commit suicide … A fantastical tale, based on Herzl’s diaries.


The Table: Blind Summit

May 28 21:00 Gerard Behar, Leo Model AuditoriumMay 29 21:00 Gerard Behar, Leo Model Auditorium

Show runs 75 min., no intermission.

Devised and performed by: Mark Down, Nick Barnes, Sean GarrattCo-devised with: Sarah Calver, Mabel Jones, Irena Stratieva, Ivan ThorleyMusic: Lemez and FriedelLighting: Richard HowellArtistic consultant: Andrew Dawson

Moses is a 2-foot high puppet with a cardboard head. He lives on a table and has a problem:all he’s asked to do are children’s birthday parties. He’s tired of it – he’s a serious artist!Tonight the table belongs to him, and anything is possible…

Unique, funny, epic puppetry inspired by Beckett, the Bible,and Ikea.

The Table has been the recipient of numerous international awards, and is one of the Edinburgh Festival’s most successful productions from recent years.

Supported by Jackson’s Lane Commissioned by YADArts and JCC

The performance will be in English, without surtitles.Tickets are general admission; seating is not assigned.


The Old Man and the Sea (by Hemingway)

Center Stage Festival

Thur., May 30, 19:00, 21:00 | Gerard Bechar Center

Performed by: Oleg RodovilskyAdapted and directed by: Gadi SedakaIs today the lucky day? Old Santiago goes to the sea for the last time, to meet a fish he has alwaysdreamt about.


NODA-MAPwith the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

31.5.2013 | 12:00 | Jerusalem Theatre1.6.2013 | 21:30 | Jerusalem Theatre


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The Israel Festival 2013 in Jerusalem: Multidisciplinary Performances

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1-700-70-20-15 02-623-7000

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Various venues around Jerusalem.

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