I’m Talking to You in Chinese

Poetic Drama

Text in: he

A 39-year-old daughter of Holocaust survivors enters her dead parents’ old apartment after a twenty-year absence. Engulfed by childhood memories, scenes come to life of herself as a fifteen-year old, her parents and her aunt, who was in love with her brother-in-law. Observing them from a distance and becoming aware of their tragic life, she comes to terms with them and with herself.

The play moves along two levels of time: the past and the present which depicts a relationship forming between Miri and the real-estate agent who turns out to be part of her childhood and youth.

The play tells the story of a generation whose parents came toIsraelas immigrants.