At the end of four days Theatronto Festival On the 31st of 2022, the list of winners was published tonight (Thursday). The actress Rinat Yona GlikoIs the winner of the first prize named after Nissim Azikri, with the play “The Hotel”, directed by Mickey Mevorach.
The play by Lior Galiciano tells the story of an unemployed actress who during the Corona is forced to work as a security guard in an abandoned hotel. Here she discovers that the hotel is home to different and weird characters and the encounter between them raises questions about art about life and what lies between them.
“This year’s award is given to an actress who juggles a wide variety of characters and in a virtuoso game with and without masks, leads the audience into the intricacies of a funny and exciting family story,” the judges’ arguments read. The prize is NIS 10,000, donated by the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation.
A commendation is given to the player David Bilanka For his performance in the play “Early Childhood” directed by Sinai Feter.
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This is an American play by George Brant (Hebrew translation Keren Tzur) centered on Martin, a guard in a huge supermarket, which was converted on the orders of President Trump into a detention facility for the children of illegal immigrants. On cold nights, Martin reads chapters from “The Wizard of Oz” to the imprisoned children, and when a mysterious plague breaks out, Martin is forced to deviate from the rules of protocol.
“The actor performs a variety of characters with great talent and precise bodywork using clever and exciting use of space and objects, in a play that evokes thoughts on a personal and social level,” the judges’ reasoning said.
The actor Michael Hanegbi He won the Tarin Shelfi Audience Award, for his performance in the play “The Witness” directed by Moriah Zarchia.
From “The Witness” (Photo: Gerard Alon)The play is written by three people: Hadas Calderon, Oded Ehrlich and Gail Lau. On the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, the play tells the extraordinary story of a great Yiddish poet, Avraham Sutzkover, who was also a warrior partisan and in charge of the cultural treasures of Vilnius. Sutzkober was chosen to be the only Jewish witness in the Nuremberg trials. It is a story about believing in the power of poetry to save lives and for the victory of the spirit. The prize is NIS 3,000, given by Terin’s mother, Vardit Shelfi.
At this year’s festival, a new theatrical framework “Short Espresso” was launched, in which eight short plays were performed.
The first prize was awarded to the player Nadav Perfume For his performance in “You are not a father” directed by Ricky Hayut. The play is based on a true story and expresses the citizen’s cry against the great system. A father from whom parenthood is taken and he ranges from anger to pain to longing.
From “You are not a father” (Photo: Gerard Alon)“A moving play born of a personal and painful story of Nadav Boshem, who develops a bleeding wound devoid of self-pity and full of humor mixed with pain. With great courage he reveals the helplessness he experienced, he laughs and cries in almost the same breath, The importance of the theater. “You are not a father” deserves to develop into a complete work, “read the judges’ motto.
A commendation was given to the player Isaac Hezekiah For his performance in the play “Thirst” written and directed by Mickey Gurevitz. “We found it appropriate to honor and cherish the actor Yitzhak Hezekiah for his exciting and breathtaking virtuoso play that unfolds admirably a story about the loneliness of old age and the longing for love,” the judges justified their choice.
From “Thirst” (Photo: Gerard Alon)The award for the audience selection, named after the late, was awarded to the actress Dana Elazar For her role in the play “At the End of the Last Step” directed by Tomer Ben Amram. The play by Gili Neumon tells of an encounter between a young woman and an old man. The NIS 3,000 prize was given by Tarin’s mother, Vardit Shelfi.
From “At the End of the Last Step” (Photo: Gerard Alon)The Theatronto performances were staged this year in the halls of Old Jaffa and Old Acre.
During the four days of the festival under the direction of Gila Almagor Agmon, the widow of the founder of the theater and its late director Yaakov Agmon, seven solo performances were premiered in the competitive framework. Shimon Mimran and Vigal I helped.
The jury consisted of: the chair of the Arab culture section of the Ministry of Culture and the director of Fringe Nazareth, Haula Dibsey, the actress Dina Blay and the theater’s creator, Arik Avigor.
The jury for “Short Espresso” included actress Miki Peleg Rothstein, creator Rotem Nehamati and creator Ido Colton.
About 5,000 spectators came to the festival performances.