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Aloe vera - Tmuna

A drama full of nuances and power about five Israeli women. 

Vera, who runs the aloe vera bar with a high hand, did not prepare for such an evening. One waitress brings trouble with her husband to work,

The other one makes her plays and decides to break the instruments, the bar singer starts with a guy who comes to the show,

And an unsettled client decides to put an end to her dull life tonight.

What begins as a solid evening of songs and drinking, becomes a drama about five women with a scratch.

"Aloe Vera" mixes genres. There's a simple story here with restrained realistic scenes, alongside cabaret songs,

Eurovision number, tap, stand-up, oriental hip hop and heartbreaking monologues.

This stylistic variety allows the five women, the protagonists of the show, to fly high while telling their story.

In "Aloe" the audience is part of the story.

The drama takes place around him and within him. On the one hand he watches a colorful spectacle,

On the other hand, it is impossible to escape the intimacy, the personal story.

"Aloe vera" is created following workshop work, physical exercises and improvisations. Monologue excerpts and songs created during these sessions,

Were the bricks from which the play was constructed.

The choice to focus on five mature and aware women has spawned an exposed, personal and courageous text.

Each in its own way, in a piyyut of curses and simple language, shares in the dark past, helplessness in the face of the people who scarred it, shame, passion, horniness, longing for intimacy, self-humor and the power of reconciliation. Together a powerful portrait of women today was built here.

: Tmuna Theater 

Idea and director: Shlomo Plesner, play: Ido Bornstein and Shlomo Plesner

Actors: Esti Zakheim, Odelia Segal-Michael, Hila Surjun-Fischer, Miki Peleg, Edna Kedar 

Music: Galit Florentz, David Friedland, David Saban

Set and costumes: Yochai Matos, Lighting: Keren Grenk

Performance Management: Karin Steng December 2004-July

2008 Winner of the Golden Hedgehog Award for Composing Music

Aloe vera
Tmuna's bar becomes Aloe Vera, a club run by women. What begins as a realistic drama, mixes tap, stand-up, songs and dances, to reveal the world of five women with a scratch.

"Fascinating meeting with five great women" (Elyakim Yaron, Maariv)
 
"Aloe vera sets a high standard of theater for the audience" (Zvi Goren, Ynet)
"Pictures and images from the play burned my mind" (Eitan Bar Yosef, the city)
Duration of the show: about an hour and a quarter


 
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