Bilu 28
Tel-Aviv
Israel
- Arts
1. To create and support a theater troupe which will create a unique interdisciplinary language for the performing arts, and will express it through shows and plays.
2. To sustain an array of professional workshops for the purpose of development, study and research of the unique language of the group, and for the purpose of training proffesionals in the field.
2. To serve as a center for the surronding community, allowing arts to serve as a tool for self-expression and social discussion.
3. To be a relevant, contemporary theater that deals with issues effecting the local and global community.
Led by the criticaly acclaimed director, Shlomo Plessner, and the talanted playwright, Ido Borenstein, the theater create shows and workshops.
Theater Can premiered with its controversial play: "Dogs", a biting comedy that addresses the much tabooed aspect of the Israeli reality - How do the men in this conflicted reality, both Jewish and Arab, can overcome the roles they have been assigned to in society?
Dealing with issues of gender, acceptance and cross-generation relationships, have been important subject matters for the leading creating forces in the theater.