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The Lake

The Lake

Six friends meet for a weekend at a lake house. The seemingly idyllic scenes are interrupted by flashbacks from the rest of their lives — moments that expose pain, violence and alienation beneath the surface.

An imperfect world whose end is bound to surface, like the waters of the black lake.

Tmuna Theater · By Mikhail Durnenkov · Translated and directed by Ariel N. Wolf · Co-creation and dramaturgy: Ira Orlov

"There is much to say about The Lake by Mikhail Durnenkov, directed by Ariel Wolf — a production that turned words into the presence of actors who gave themselves over to the song of theatre. A shaking production. Excellent contemporary theatre."

Dorit Yerushalmi
Oedipus. Triptych

Oedipus. Triptych

A modern three-part adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King. A visual stage work tracing the riddle of human identity, caught in the eternal conflict between biological and human law. Stark plays Jocasta — mother and wife, mother of the children she bore to her son-husband and to the murderer of the king whose place he took.

Directed by Ariel Wolf · Tmuna Theater

"Sharon Stark is moving and astonishing in shaping a royal authority as it breaks, and in shaping a woman crushed under the weight of the guilt she takes upon herself."

Zvi Goren, Habama★★★★★
Machinal

Machinal

An expressionist drama in nine scenes following a young woman trapped in the gears of the social system and rebelling against her fate. Based on a true story from 1928, the play follows the tie a manager weaves with his secretary, ending in the murder of a husband. The defendant was the first woman in history to be executed in the electric chair. Stark plays Helen.

Directed by Sinai Peter · Khan Theater

"This production belongs first and foremost to Sharon Stark: with a heart-rending presence that moves between breathtaking silent-film beauty and the physical and emotional fragility of a mechanical doll."

Eitan Bar-Yosef, Achbar Ha'Ir, 2006★★★★★
Happiness

Happiness

Set in a three-storey building. On the top floor lives a married couple, below them the husband's elderly father, and in the basement four men play cards. Another couple sits in the audience watching the show, hosted by an energetic salesman who promises an interactive, non-intrusive evening full of surprises and supreme happiness.

Written and directed by Mikhael Gurevich · Khan Theater

"Ten actors, together with Gurevich as magician-poet-director and Renana Raz's excellent choreographic touch, create one piece. In the end, Happiness is true and grand theatre that returns us to poetry."

Zvi Goren, Habama★★★★★
Heliogabalus

Heliogabalus

A stage work inspired by Antonin Artaud's Heliogabalus, or the Crowned Anarchist, following the reign of the Syrian boy-emperor in the Roman Empire. Alongside his mother's forceful rule, the androgynous fourteen-year-old leads the empire into decadent chaos — an era of license and obscenity, a new order in which order itself is an anarchy of power games.

Directed by Ariel Wolf · Acco Festival 2016

"The unique, almost physical force the actors transmitted to the audience, thanks to the perfect aesthetics of movement and music, and above all because this is true theatre — an experience that cannot be translated into words alone."

Neri Livne, Haaretz★★★★★