In this book, Leah Gilula tells the story of Israel's Cameri Theater, a modern theater that started out as a revolt of young actors against the established and acclaimed
Habima Theater, which did not make room for the new generation.
Represented by Anthony Julius, he argues in this case that the campaign that wanted to silence the
Habima theater company is, in effect if not intent, antisemitic, and it has created a situation inside his trade union where antisemitic ways of thinking and antisemitic norms of institutional governance have become ordinary.
Monday evening the Jazz formation The Bulchemists of 6 young Bulgarian Jews living in Israel performed for the Bulgarian delegation at a cocktail reception at the
Habima Theater in Tel Aviv.
Protesters tried to halt Israel's
Habima theater company's production of The Merchant of Venice at the reconstructed Globe in London.
Israel's
Habima Theater staged the play as part of the Globe to Globe festival in London, where 37 plays are being performed in 37 languages by theater companies around the globe.
The group asked London's Globe Theatre to withdraw its invitation to Israel's
Habima Theater to participate in the World Shakespeare Festival, on the grounds that Habima has organized plays in Israeli settlements.
Habima Theater was chosen to present "The Merchant of Venice" at the Globe to Globe festival, defined by the British press as "a unique Shakespeare festival".
When the
Habima Theater in Palestine rehearsed its controversial adaptation of the play in 1947, their British director Tyrone Guthrie was appalled at his star actress' insistence on wailing as she delivered her lines: "You are to play a fighting tigress and not a lamenting Jewish mother," he quipped.
Habima Theater in Tel Aviv produced it in Hebrew in 1936.
The Bulgarian delegation will enjoy Monday evening a concert and a cocktail party at the
Habima theater.
