Israeli theater continues to serve as a cultural ambassador for the nation, and on Nov. 17, a four-day event co-sponsored by the Culture and Sports Ministry and the Foreign Ministry will see the curtain go up on 13 Israeli plays that will debut internationally in an online format.
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Of the 100 plays submitted to the committee in charge of making the selections for iSRA-DRaMA – International Exposure of Israeli Theatre 2021, 13 were selected.
The event will also include various online meetings and discussions about issues such as the burgeoning trend of theater versions of productions that started as other media; works focusing on fluidity of the concepts "masculine" and "feminine"; gender issues in the #MeToo age; and Israeli plays that saw success around the world.
The festival will launch with a special session titled TRANS-FORMANCE, in which author A.B. Yehoshua, Director-General of Habima Theater Noam Semel, Sapir Prize winner Noa Yedlin, singer and conductor David Zebba; director Yair Sherman, and actor and director Dr. Roy Horowitz are slated to participate.
This year, special emphasis will be placed on women creators in theater, such as Aya Kaplan, Rotem Volk, Daphna Silberg, Shirli Deshe, Michal Savironi, Yael Rasoli, Maayan Kilchevsky, Tali Hecht, Hadar Galron, Noga Ashkenazi, and the late Nava Semel.
For more information and to view the selected productions and events, visit the iSRA-DRaMA website.
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