“In the Tunnel” – Gesher Theater Performance

Please note this is a limited space event. Tickets are on a first come first serve basis.

Join Kibbutznik for an afternoon of intellectual delight. Togetherm we will attend the play that was inspired by the Best Foreign Language Oscar-winning film No Man’s Land. Two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians are trapped in a tunnel dug by Hamas between Gaza and Israel. Enemies snared in a mousetrap, they try to find their way out. Should they kill or save each other? Meanwhile, above ground, a political and media circus is attempting to capture and cover the event.

RSVP – $75 per/person for a sold out performance on October 7th at 2:00 pm of In The Tunnel. Please note these are center balcony tickets in one of the first 3 rows. A free ticket to a Q and A with Roy Chen and the Artists on October 2nd is included.

This event is for adults and older teens.

Play by: Roy Chen
After: Danis Tanovic “No man’s land”
Directed by Irad Rubinstein

“In the tunnel is a great show … madly funny … the front line of the political theater in Israel … 5 stars Do not miss!” – Yedioth Ahronoth

“This performance takes Gesher Theater to the forefront of Israel’s political scene”. – Haaretz

Direct from Israel, the internationally acclaimed Gesher Theater presents the North American premiere of “In the Tunnel”, satirical novel, directed by Irad Rubinsten.

Is there a light at the end of the Tunnel? Is there a solution to the awful and utterly predictable Israeli/Palestinian cycle of violence? Can we ever retreat from the barrage of buzzwords that form the narratives of both sides?

Israeli soldiers, a beat-up reservist Iftach and “green” draftee Tzlil, are buried in the tunnel. They are together with two Palestinians – Mansur and Hisam. Enemies are in the mousetrap, trying to find their way out.
To kill or to save each other? They try to survive in this suffocating underground. Above them – our customary political carnival, absurd, dominant and inherent background of our daily life.
Is theater the mirror of reality? Can it reflect and judge this reality “here and now”? To whom and what to believe? Who triggers and who lowers the trigger in the world, ruled by mass media, in the world of broken communication?

Roy Chen

Roy Chen is an Israeli writer, translator and playwright. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1980. Roy is the dramaturge of the Gesher Theater and has published two books, the novel The Ink Horses (2005) and Tel-Aviv Tales (2011) story collection. Chen translated poetry, prose, classic fiction novels and over 40 plays from Russian, French and English to Hebrew (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Bunin, Gogol, Kharms, Moliere, Hatcher). His plays, adaptations and translations are presented In the Gesher Theater: The Dybbuk, Don Juan, Odysseus Travels, In the Tunnel, White Nights, Schwartz and Other Animals, Kreutzer Sonata, and more. Chen lectures in Israel and abroad on translation, writing, literature, theatre, and of his journeys in Languages ​​and cultures. He lives in Tel Aviv.