The Jerusalem Arts Festival: The Suitcase Packers

The Jerusalem Arts Festival bringstogether local and out-of-town performing groups for a week-longcelebration of the arts in Jerusalem. This year’s festival comprisessome 30 performances – dance, theatre and music – taking place intheatres and halls throughout the city.

Description:

About the show – Comic play by Hanoch Levin. The plot takes place in Israel in the 1960s and presents a human, poetic, cruel and absurd mosaic. Downtrodden characters live in loneliness and with time they die or pack a suitcase and fly abroad. In the course of the play funerals are held for eight of the characters.

Performance – Beit Shmuel Acting Workshop

Credits – Playwright: Hanoch LevinAdaptation and direction: Uri Weill

Price 25 NIS

Notes

Event Time 20:30

Event Date 11/03/2010

Duration 75 minutes with intermission

Venue Hirsch Theatre, Beit Shmuel