Wanderers

Wanderers is an anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays by both established and emerging playwrights and theatre makers. Together they show the range of Israeli drama, theatre and performance and the questions of identity at the heart of Israeli society. A substantial introduction covers the theatrical contexts of the plays and some of the major issues the society faces, and it also surveys each playwright's work and analyses the plays.

Joshua Sobol's Wanderers reconstructs the life of an Israeli double agent who undergoes an identity crisis. Hanoch Levin's Walking in the Dark is an existentialist piece about the Walking Man, who takes a late-night walk through the city and cannot decide whether to visit his sick mother; the city and the night become an endless space of the mind. Yossefa Even-Shoshan's The Maiden of Ludmir examines where women stand within orthodox texts and social structures.

Taher Najib's In Spitting Distance follows an actor who lives in the West Bank but carries an Israeli passport as he tries to fly from Paris to Tel Aviv a year after 9/11. Tamir Greenberg's Hebron portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on a mythic scale. Ruth Kanner's Disgust is a documentary performance, built on interviews with passers-by, that explores disgust as a personal and social idea. Tamar Raban and Guy Gutman's Old Wives' Tales is a performance piece set in a patisserie that is real yet fictional.