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Development Lab
The Development Lab is a development program of the Kvutsat Avoda (Work Group) Theater Ensemble that aims to initiate the writing process of new original plays, from synopsis to a full production. The program participants, who were selected based on their proposals, received a development grant and dramaturgical guidance on the way to developing new plays, and one of them - "PREQU-EL and SEQU-EL Inherit a Cult ", has already been produced and is running. Two others: The Mountain of Stupidity and Negative Space are expected to go on stage during 2027.
For more details about the project, and to submit proposals
Development Lab Project Participants 2025-26
The Mountain of Stupidity | Noam Shatzky
Mockumentary comedy
A young intelligence officer retraces the chain of mistakes that led to the outbreak of war. Not this war. A different war. He returns to a world where there are no wars and never will be, and tries to uncover the truth about what happened, but he is not allowed to tell it - so he changes everything, except for one thing.
To be performed by the "Work Group" ensemble during 2027
Photo: Yuval Nitzan
Negative Space | Ben Sgersky
Science fiction comedy
In the not-so-distant future, the State of Israel is engaged in an ongoing multi-front war with all the countries of the world, and sends a spaceship whose mission is to find a desolate planet on which to re-establish the Jewish state. At the edge of the solar system, just days before contact with Earth is finally severed, the ship's commander discovers that all her sacrifices may have been in vain, and finds herself fighting for the values she grew up with while all her basic assumptions about the world (and the universe) are crumbling.
To be performed by the "Work Group" ensemble during 2027
Photo: Yuval Nitzan
Zero Tolerance | Roey Meliah Reshef
Comedy drama
There are no witnesses, no evidence, and no one really knows what happened between the sports teacher and the student. There are two conflicting versions, a pair of parents willing to turn the world upside down for their son, and one high school principal with zero tolerance for violence who must stop the deterioration before the story gets out and turns the school into the center of a political war.
Photo: Romi Reshef Sigal
Development Lab Project Participants 2024-25
PREQU-EL and SEQU-EL Inherit a Cult | Ben Sgersky and Yuval Steinberg
A dark comedy about enlightened people
When the immortal leader of a mysterious cult in the south of the country dies suddenly one evening, her two sons, Prequel and Sequel, try to prevent the orphaned community from falling apart. When they discover a docu-team has infiltrated the cult to film a documentary about it, everything they know about themselves and the world changes.
First Performed in August 2025 in a production by the "Work Group" ensemble as part of the Comedy Festival
Photo: Tal Galon
Photo: Yuval Nitzan
A Child of God | Tess Meir
Poetic autobiographical drama
A child of God encounters scattered figures within her who return again and again with the aim of controlling her. She fights them in every way possible, to regain control of her life. Who will she bring to justice and how? What is the sentence she is unable to utter? And is there a chance of reunion after all these years?
Photo: Tal Shahar
Archive | Amital Stern
Comic drama
In a special department in the archive, two men and two women work to formulate concise and objective titles for thousands of war images that change before their eyes on computer screens. Despite the monotonous and boring work, they are careful to maintain a businesslike, pleasant and effective work routine, until it becomes clear that their work routine is also an object of documentation.
"Archiving produces the event, to the extent that it documents it." Jacques Derrida
Psychological Therapy | Nir Strauss
A comedy about separation anxiety
Uriah is unable to stop obsessively following his ex on social media, and arrives at a bar in a desperate attempt to break free from his obsession with her, where he meets his psychologist, a coach who specializes in lonely and heartbroken men, and Efrat, who is already in love with another man.
Photo: Hemda Idel
