Posts Tagged: Poetic Drama

An eternal child turns into the undertaker of an Israeli village, a place in which he had had a magical childhood among people and animals.

And the Rat Laughed is an original opera in Hebrew based on Nava Semel’s accliamed novel from 2001. The music was composed by Israeli comopser Ella Milch-Sheriff. This novel dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust and the influence of this harrowing chapter of human history was highly praised for… קראו עוד

The play takes place in an unnamed South American country. King Bonifacius Victor Felix of the House of Hohenschwaden, and his son, Crown Prince Ferdinand, flee their kingdom, Great Bogomania. There, in the old country, the father was the benevolent monarch. Today he calls himself Felix Van Shvank and barely… קראו עוד