Kvutsat Avoda (Work Group) Theater Ensemble 
קבוצת עבודה
Home for new Israeli Drama

Playwrights Hillel Mittelpunkt, Avishai Milstein, Boaz Gaon, Danielle Cohen Levy, Hadar Galron, Noam Gil, and Oren Jacobi discuss how to learn playwriting, warnings and recommendations, courses and workshops, the best books to look to for guidance on dramatic writing and tips for beginner and veteran writers

Playwright Roey Maliach Reshef in an article about motivations for writing, and the difference between writing for yourself and writing for others.

Our goal from the start was to bring to the stage complex and relevant issues from the community itself, explore them in depth, reflect them back to the audience of community members to surface thoughts and emotions allowing meaningful discourse about these issues.

I haven't been able to write since October 7th. I finished a play before the damned Sabbath and since then I've put together some new things I'm working on, but the writing itself hasn't been going well for me. On ordinary days of imaginary routine, I find myself dealing with two opposing perceptions: My need to confront the reality that surrounds us through writing, and my need to write as a means of escape from that reality and from what is happening around me. After Octobe

Jewish playwriting is not a distinct category or separate genre, but rather a diverse field of theatrical creation that emerged from the unique encounter between the universal world of theatre and the traditions of Jewish creativity, discourse, and interpretation, as well as the Jewish worldview shaped by the experience of living as a minority. When we speak of Jewish plays in Israel, we usually mean works that engage with Jewish history, the sources of our culture, or the li

Jewish Playwriting – Qustions of Identity and Culture

The Horror Genre in Israeli Theater

על המחזאות היהודית בישראל ובעולם - מחזאים יהודים ושאלות של זהות ותרבות

By Dr. Eldad Shidlovsky* : Yossi Yzraeli’s starting point is the study of theatrical experience, whereas Emmanuel Levinas’s starting point is philosophy and ethics. Despite the differences between them in almost every possible biographical parameter, I was surprised to find lines of similarity and points of contact in the thought of Levinas and Yzraeli Yossi Yzraeli is a director, playwright, poet and professor emeritus in the Theater Department at Tel Aviv University. The fi

חדשות ועדכונים מאתר מחזאי ישראל, וסקר בנושא מחזאות יהודית

The power of the stage lies in its ability to mobilize. A line is a wall. A turn is time. A knife is an end. From the moment I arrive, my imagination is also invited to take part and within a moment I am involved

Playwright Roey Maliach Reshef shares 9 insights about the horror genre in theater

הבמאי הצ'כי Michal Dočekal ביים שלוש הפקות של המחזה "מקווה" מאת הדר גלרון באירופה, על במות מרכזיות. בעבר היה ראש איגוד הבמאים האירופי