“A Warsaw Melody"

 

What is happiness?

 

Happiness is a complicated thing - сonsists of joy and sorrow, love and parting, hopes and disappointments - just like our lives. 

Life where things do not always work as we expect. Life in which we never know what is better. Life where love does not always win.

 

“A Warsaw Melody" is an "urban legend" about two very different people who met by chance and broke up due to painful circumstances beyond their control.

Each of them lived his own life and had his own love story until they met again...

 

Duration: 80 min

Language: Hebrew

Director:  Michael Teplitsky

Playwright: Leonid Zorin 

Adaptation: Michael Teplitsky

Hebrew translation: Sivan Baskin

Stage design: Polina Adamov

Costume design: Dalia Pen

Lighting Design: Misha Cherniavsky, Inna Malkin

Video Design: Konstantin Kamensky

Music by:  Eugene Levitas

Video editor: Jan Schupa

 

Cast:

Ori Lebanon, Natalia Gantman

FREE FALL

A combination of motion and dramatic theater. 

 

Life is a freefall, it is unclear where you're flying to and where you will land. 

But as the ground draws near, and the end becomes clear to you, there is a sudden spark of desire to live within you. And you ask: Can I do it again, please?

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Duration of the performance 75 min

Language: Hebrew

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Adaptation and Director:  Michael Teplitsky

Choreography: Lena Rozenberg 

Hebrew translation:  

Scene, Costume, Accessories and Lighting Designer:  Vadim Keshersky
Music by:  Eugene Levitas

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CAST

Earl of Gloucester Dima Ross

Edmund (his younger and illegitimate son) Leon Moroz 
Edgar (his elder son) Ori Levanon

Regan (Lear’s second daughter) Hadas Eyal

Goneril (Lear’s eldest daughter) Ksenia Moroz

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Photography and Graphics Oleg Evstafiev

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"Lear without Lear, introduced by a bastard. It works splendidly. Lear. Puppets and People, directed by Michael Teplitsky, is theatre as it can be and should be: imaginative, entertaining, and unafraid to take risks… It’s provocative, funny, cynical, violent, moving, and harrowingly relevant"

Ayelet  Dekel  "Midnight East"

THE CHAIRS

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The Chairs is an absurdist "tragic farce" play by Eugène Ionesco.

The play concerns two characters, known as Old Man and Old Woman, frantically preparing chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the Old Man's discovery.

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Duration of the performance 65 min

Language: Hebrew

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Adaptation and Director:  Michael Teplitsky

Hebrew translation: Eli Sabag

Scene, Costume Designer: Polina Adamov

Lighting Designer:  Vadim Keshersky
Music by:  Eugene Levitas

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CAST

Old man 1  Michael Teplitsky

Old woman 1  Evgenia Sharova 

Old man 2  Pavel Kravetsky

Old woman 2  Inna Slabitker

 

Photography  Olga Dubova / Anna Vorontsova

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A foreign woman.

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 A woman of Russian descent falls in love with a South American man, and shakes up the immigrant neighborhood in New York where she lives. 

Pure Russian laughter that stems from the depth of despair. Self-humor that thrives out of the misery, imposed on the individual by state and society.

 

Marusia Tatarovich comes from a family of Communist Party activists. At some point she decided to emigrate to the USA. In order to obtain permission to leave the Soviet Union, she married a fictitious marriage to a Jew Zaire Tzahanovitzer. 

 

Very soon she found herself in a Russian neighborhood in New York. 

 

By this point she is a beautiful and lonely woman, a single mother. She went through a typical immigrant journey - lack of work and money, despair, men's onslaught. But eventually life works out, and she finally marries a local man...

 

(Иностранка; literally - "woman from abroad").

 

A play by Michael Teplitzky based on a book by Sergei Dovlatov (a modern Russian-Jewish-American writer)

 

Directed by: Michael Teplitsky

Set, costumes and lighting: Vadim Kasharsky

Music: Yevgeny Levitas

Assistant Director: Michael Kate

 

 

Cast: Yevgenia Sharova, Michael Teplitsky, Ilya Domanov, Vladimir Zemlyansky, Nikolai Tuberowski

 

 

Ha-fa-na-na

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Sometimes it's easier for us to cover up with a joke, sometimes we prefer to pay attention to people that are next to us, sometimes we choose to run away from ourselves instead of solving the problem. Sometimes we decide to take a taxi instead of taking a responsibility. Sometimes we want just to run away. 

 

This is life. Our life, ordinary and standard, the simplest and most complex issue we need to deal with.

 

The show deals with ongoing insults, fate, and the fact that we all carry our burden of worries not knowing how to get rid of it on time. 

A philosophical parable about time, about how we grow up and interpret the actions of our youth. 

 

Many of us remember African Simon who appeared on stage in the late 70s. The singer's main hit was the song "Ha-fa-na-na", whose lyrics seem to be just a strange set of words. But in fact, Simon sings in Tongue language, telling us that both white and black are all equal before God. 

So, have fun, relax, take it easy, do “ha-fa-na-na”!

 

Playwright By: Haim Yazin, Alexander Grinstein

Directed by: Michael Teplitsky

Sad set and costumes: Olga Gurevitch

Musical direction: Yevgeny Levitas

Choreography: Natalia Stendler

 

Cast: Natalia Gantman, David Zisselson, Ksenia Markuze, Daniel Stiopin, Vladimir Zemlyansky

 

Duration: 1.15 without a break

THE SNOW TALE

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 “When the sun arrives I’ll melt away”… “So I’ll head to the sun and will ask him not to come”

“The Snow Tale” is a beautiful and unique show for the whole family that conveys the cozy homely winter feel. The fact that the venue can seat up only 34 persons invests a lot in this atmosphere.

The little snowman starts his journey to stop the sun from coming in an effort to have the winter continue. On his way he meets new friends living in the forest and learns a lot of new about the world, the nature and particularly about himself.

The show is based on a romantic folk story “The sun and the snow people”. 

Theatre adaptation and direction: Leon Moroz

Set, costumes and puppets: Ksenia Moroz

Music: Leon Moroz

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ACTORS:

Ksenia Moroz

Hadas Eyal

David Ziselson

 

 

Photography  by Mark Tso

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