The year is 1991. It is the evening of the outbreak of the First Lebanese War. Our story brings together a young Israeli winemaker, the salt of the earth, with an opera singer from Poland who is just beginning her career. This chance encounter leads them to fall madly in love, but the hand of fate keeps the two apart. When her residency visa expires, he is called up for emergency military reserve duty, and the two question the nature of love, happiness, and the way that beginnings and endings, happiness and sadness, hopes and disappointments are all intertwined.
Creators
Written by: Leonid Zorin
Translated by: Sivan Baskin
Produced and directed by: Michael Teplitsky
Stage design: Polina Adamov
Lighting design: Misha Chernyavsky and Inna Malkin
Costume Design: Dalia Pan
Original music by: Eugene Levitas
Video design: Konstantin Kamensky
Video editing: Yan Shofa
Assistant Director: Shiran Hai
Cast
Natalia Gantman
Ori Levanon
*Special thanks to Dudu Niv, Daryush Sadeh-Bozhzokoski, and Anna Maslov
Duration: About 80 minutes, no intermission
First performance: 24 December 2019
Photo: Mark Tso
Articles
“An interview with director Michael Teplitsky about A Warsaw Melody at Malenky Theatre”
-Yaakov Bar-On, Maariv
“After lock-down: Malenky Theatre returns with A Warsaw Melody”
-HaBama website
