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ters) and his long dead wife, whose image grows
stronger in his mind as the play progresses.
The play was translated by Jacob Sibi. Edward
Georgiou took charge of sets and costumes. The
cast included Eftichios Poullaidis, Vasiliki Kypre-
ou and Minas Tingilis.
Sponsors: Lemesos (Limassol) Municipality,
Limassol Co-operative Savings Bank.
Communication sponsors: CyBC, Kathimerini
Newspaper, Channel 6, Lemesos Newspaper
Production sponsors: Triple Five, AtlasPantou
Construction Ltd, Royal Crown Insurance, OPAP
Cyprus, G.D. Positive Consulting Ltd, Shoham
Cyprus Ltd, K.P. Kyriakou Bookshop, K. & K.
Vasilikon Winery.
Hanoch Levin: playwright, director, author,
poet, visionary, creator
(By Moti Sandak, Jewish Theatre News)
Born on 18 December 1943, Hanoch Levin, the
son of Holocaust survivors from Poland, erupted
into the consciousness of Israeli theatre at the
end of the 1960s with his satirical review
You,
Me and the Next War
, directed by Edna Shavit.
It was staged in the basement of Bar-Barim Club
(then a jazz club), crammed between garages and
metal workshops in Hamasger Street in south Tel
Aviv. It was a summer’s evening and a group of
us sat on straw stools looking open-mouthed at
the small stage with its four chairs, five actors, and
composerAlex Kagan at the piano. Three spots lit
the stage and a simple electric fan stood next to it
in an effort to alleviate the heat and humidity.
This was followed by Levin’s cabaret,
The Queen
of the Bathtub
, directed by Hanoch’s older broth-
er, David Levin (who later became artistic direc-
tor of the Habima National Theatre, and who now
lives and works in Germany). It was staged at the
Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv at the height of the
War of Attrition that raged over both banks of the
Suez Canal. The play met with heated demonstra-
tions by audiences and members of the political
establishment, which led to a public debate re-