Hans, an outrageous young camp German homosexual, and Benjamin, a conservative elderly Jewish man appear at first to have little in common. Working together, repairing watches for the Nazis, suspicion, prejudice indifference slowly give way to a touching friendship. Benjamin can mend watches. Hans knows how to survive. None of them can really sing opera. So what’s to be done? Humour, apparently, is a great weapon
This award-winning drama, which has toured Israel to great acclaim with this cast for over eight years, deals with the Holocaust in a way that accentuates the private experience amidst a tragedy of millions. It became an ‘International hit’ and “The most performed Israeli piece of theatre in the world”!!!
Up to now, it enjoyed successful runs in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Poland, Greece, Canada, USA and now South Africa. The play also won his playwright two awards (The Hudson River Classics Playwright’s Award and the Writer’s Digest Playwright’s Contest Award).
Rave Reviews:
“This is a really beautiful, intense piece of theatre… It is all too rare to see such a gripping and moving production in a smaller fringe theatre and all involved are to be congratulated… catch it while you can.”
(The British Theatre Guide)
VENUE: Cape Town Holocaust Centre
DATE: 5 and 6 March 2013
TIME: 8.00pm
COST: R60.00
BOOK: admin@holocaust.org.za Tel: 27 21 4625553
A play by Dan Clancy
Director: Lee Gilat
Actors: Roy Horovitz,
Rami Baruch / Pinhas Mittelman, Omer Etzion
Original score: Daniel Salomon
Vocal coach: Prof. Hanna Hacohen
