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Echoing the headline in the November issue of Time Out Israel - "It's a free country" - the freedom of dramatic expression in that country was evident during last month's "International Exposure" theatrical programme. There was freedom in the diversity of subject matter, the style of presentation and the production scale, effectively backed up by the multiplicity of performance ve....
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Held immediately after its theatre counterpart, last month's "International Exposure to Israeli Dance" offered journalists, choreographers, artistic directors and festival directors from around the world - among them Patravadi Mejudhon and The Nation's dance and theatre reviewer - a five-day feast of movement. The opening act in this Suzanne Dellal Centre initiative was Batsheva Dance Compa....
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Walking into Theatre 1, a semi-thrust playhouse seating about 300 people, at Tzavta, a centre for fringe theatre in downtown Tel Aviv, the audience espies an actor in a green tree suit downstage left, engulfed by highly dramatic lighting. Oh, no, not another Disney production! Actually far from it - the characters in fancy costumes in this opening scene are enthusiastically searching for the killer o....
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The media and theatre producers from around the world attending the International Exposure to Israeli Theatre 2007 fell silent as they watched Maayan Resnick's captivating solo puppet performance "Overflow" on Stage 2 of Jerusalem's Khan Theatre earlier this month. This thought-provoking show related the story of a lonely old man and his encounters with the three women who helped shape his ....
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Patravadi Mejudhon, the 59-year-old artistic director of Patravadi Theatre, is an acclaimed actress, dancer and director whose recent works have bridged the gap between dance and theatre as well as the traditional and the modern. Her biography is listed in every encyclopaedia entry for Asian theatre. Sitting across from her on the terrace of one of the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre's tw....
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When I told an old friend and fellow English Lit graduate that I'd watched two Shakespeare plays on a trip to Israel, he gave me a puzzled look. "What language were they speaking?" "Hebrew of course, with English surtitles," I replied. "Well, isn't the Bard's old English in iambic pentameter not foreign enough for us Thais?" he questioned. Actually, no, especially not i....
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