SHMUEL ATZMON Founder and director of the Yiddishspeil Theatre in Tel Aviv. Was a student of the "Ohel" theatre, on the important actors and directors of the "Habima" National theatre, one of the founders of the "Zavit" Avangard theatre and its director during its existence. He won many awards and completed drama studies in the U.S.A., France and England. Atzmon performed in tens of plays and directed more than thirty plays in various theatres in Israel. He was one of the initiators and founder of "The Three Shmuliks" which performed "Die kleine Metchalach" with great success in Israel and abroad. In 1972 he founded and directed the workshop for original theatre. He won the Shaiber prize for literature and art in 1983, and in 1984 won the Meir Margalit Prize.
Email Address: atzmons@netvision.net.il
The Israeli Yiddishpiel Theater will hold five performances this summer 2006 in three different festivals in Poland, in the cities of Bilgoraj, Zamosc and Krakow.
The Theater is to leave for Poland on June 28 and will perform "Gebirtig" by Yehoshua Sobol and "Last Love", based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
The two plays were written especially for Yiddishpiel and their world premieres were held in Israel.
"Gebirtig" will be performed four times in Poland – in Bilgoraj, Zamosc and Krakow, twice in the open air and twice in theater halls. "Last Love" will be performed just once, in Bigoraj, city of Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Yiddishpiel will spend five days in Bilgoraj, which is also my birthplace , where I will celebrate my 77th birthday 60 years after immigrating from Poland to Israel.
This celebration will be joint Bashevis Singer's oldest son, journalist Israel Zamir of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, who, it transpires, was born one day before my that same year.
This special birthday party will be held with the attendance of the entire local "crème de la crème", as well as members of the Polish parliament (Sejm), members of the artistic and cultural community and the staff of the Israeli Embassy in Poland headed by Ambassador David Peleg, and the members of Yiddishpiel. The First Secretary of the US Embassy in Poland, whose parents were born in Bilgoraj, will also be present.
In Bilgoraj Yiddishpiel will be performing "Gebirtig" (on July 1) and "Last Love" (July 2) as part of "The Days of Singer", the annual convention in commemoration of Singer's heritage, scheduled to open on July 1.
This is a new joint venture by the city's leaders and Sejm member Janusz Palikot, who established a society and foundation for the commemoration of Bashevis Singer and the heritage of Polish Jewry in general and of Bilgoraj in particular.
The two-day convention will include a series of lectures, films, and the launch of books on Jewish history, customs and culture.
there I will submit a lecture at the convention on the success of the city's Jews (July 2).
In nearby Zamosc, the city of I.L. Peretz, the Theater will give an open-air performance of "Gebirtig" on June 29 in the old marketplace, the same marketplace which gained its fame in the Peretz's wonderful "Night in the Old Marketplace". The impressive square has been preserved for hundreds of years, despite the many wars that were waged in this city throughout history.
From Bilgoraj the Theater will continue to the Sixteenth Festival of Jewish Theater in Krakow (July 1-9), which closes with a great concert lasting till dawn. Yiddishpiel will perform twice in Krakow's famous Bagatela Hall with "Gebirtig" (July 3, 4). This is Yiddishpiel's first appearance in the festival.
According to forecasts, some 2,000 people will watch Yiddishpiel's performances in Poland during our tour, and thousands of people will encounter the Theater in appearances on television, radio, and in the local and international press.
I'm very excited to be part of this unique project .
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