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Development Lab Project Participants 2024-25
The Development Lab program is a new program of the "Working Group" ensemble that aims to drive the writing process of new original plays, from synopsis to full production. We are pleased to introduce the program participants who were selected in 2024 based on their proposals, received a development grant and dramaturgical guidance on the way to developing new plays, and one of them - "PrequEl and SequEl Inherit a Cult", has already been produced and run within the framework of the "Working Group" ensemble.
Prequel and Sequel 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.
Performed in August 2025 in a production by the "Work Group" ensemble as part of the Comedy Festival
Photo: Yuval Nitzan
Photo: Tal Galon
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
