in the spirit of closure | The 30th Haifa International Children's Play Festival of the Haifa Theater will be held online this year 04-11/10/2020
Despite the original plan, to hold the Haifa Festival for Children's Plays in an almost normal format, the government's decision to close during the holidays changed the rules of the game, and the 30th Haifa Festival for Children's Plays is undergoing a change and will be held online. The festival will be broadcast in the VOD library on the festival website on the dates: 04-11/10/2020 in the VOD library on the festival website.
The Haifa International Children's Play Festival celebrates 30
To purchase tickets for the 30th Children's Play Festival, go to the link:
The 30th year of the festival
As part of the tribute to the 30th year of the festival, some of the prominent plays that participated in the festivals in previous years will also be broadcast.
The 30th festival will take place this year in an online format marked by adaptations of books and works and will deal with universal topics such as loneliness and the need for love, friendships, logic versus imagination, acceptance of the other and the different, self-confidence and the ability of the small to surprise the big.
Full length plays
As part of the changes made by the festival as a result of the corona and the closure, it was decided that this year the original performances of the festival will be filmed in full and will be broadcast online on the VOD platform of the Haifa Theater, for broadcast from October 4 to October 11 (with a symbolic cost of NIS 20 per show or alternatively - there is an option Another one where you can purchase a ticket to watch the show + support for creators and actors at a cost of NIS 30). Rental period for each viewing ticket (24 hours).
Those who have already purchased a ticket for the festival will be able to get their money back or convert the ticket to digital viewing.
A peek behind the scenes
In addition to the performances, the broadcast will also include interviews with the creators of the performances and the festival directors and will provide a glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes of the preparation of the festival, alongside additional performances from previous years - as part of the tribute to 30 years of the festival.
Nitza Ben Zvi, CEO of the Haifa Theater:
The festival is celebrating 30 and I am proud and happy to lead this important cultural institution that operates out of commitment and responsibility for the future generation, especially in the spirit of the times and the festival is an island of culture at its best in a challenging period in a difficult year all over the world. This year we will hold the festival in an online format and I am hopeful that thanks to the wonders of technology - we will still reach a situation where a much larger audience will watch the plays from the living room of their home" and most importantly that the plays they have been working on for more than a year will be born at the festival and take on a life of their own.
The festival will be held in Sukkot between October 4-11
The festival will be held in Sukkot between October 4-11 starting at 10:00 on the VOD channel of the festival website.
A line-up of the broadcast schedule will be published soon.
To purchase tickets for the festival of children's plays, go to the link:
The show: I see in color
- Writing: Barak Gedsi
- Direction and movement design: Adi Gortler
- Set design and costumes: Shovel Shaloy
- Original music and playing: Omer Boulanger Cohen
- Lighting design: Omer Boulanger Cohen
- Choreography: Ido Colton
- Game: Shahar Glickman, Yuval Ganot, Stav Vaknin, Oriya Limor Komornik, Ariel Kurt
On the way to a field trip, a riot broke out on the bus with many participants. At the hearing with the principal, each boy and girl tells in turn through their unique point of view how it all started and why they are the most right.
Through the stories, the children give us a glimpse into their inner world and the color in which each and every one of them sees the world.
Ages 5-10 | Duration of the show: about an hour
The show: A story in the world
- Play by Aviv Horowitz
- Direction and choreography: Aviv Horowitz and Merit Ben Israel
- Creative dancer: Itay Biebs
- On stage: Itai Biebs and Aviv Horowitz
- Puppet design, costumes and scenery: Michael Horowitz and Aviv Horowitz
- Artistic accompaniment: Marit Ben Israel
- Music: Gil Lavi
- Additional adaptations: Omer Horowitz and Nitai Kelly
- Lighting: Amir Castro
- Production: The Caron Theater in collaboration with the National Theater for Children and Youth
A small, brave and playful penguin from far away Antarctica travels with us around the world on the way home. Journeys in which we will discover how much we have in common with the wonderful creatures we live next to on Earth.
A dancer and a dancer and various animals embodied in their bodies, reconnect us to the earth, and nature - with dance, humor and love for the world.
From the age of 4 and for the whole family Duration of the show: about 50 minutes
The show: It's Ferdinand!
- Play, direction and movement: Enoch Reim
- Set and costumes: Gili Cousin Ulmer, Yana Malishav
- Music: Nadav Wickinski
- Lighting: Dania Zemer
- Actors: Ayalon Farber, Jonathan Botah, Masha Shmulian
- Piano: Nadav Wickinski
- Production: Elad - Eilat and Araba Theater
- Inspired by the classic book - "The Story of Ferdinand" by Monroe Leaf.
Cheeky comedy that doesn't go with the herd! If you are a bull - you like to fight. You must strike. It's your nature. Every calf with a pair of horns on its head already knows this.
If you are a bull - you are one! And if you don't? what if you don't If you, for example, like to braid key braids? or dance? Or heaven forbid to smell flowers - if you are like that, who and what are you anyway? This is Ferdinand. The sweetest cow in the meadow.
Ages 5-9 | Duration of the show: 50 minutes
The show: My Hugo
- Play: Shahar Sitner
- Songs and music: Ronit Kano
- Directed by: Naomi Yoeli
- Stage design, puppets and props: Hadas Ofrat
- Lighting: Dan Karger
- Actors: Yonatan Ben Haim, Ayala Dangor, Ronit Kano
- Production: The Caron Theater
Grandpa Hugo was once a very lucky little boy. In the days when evil was rampant in the world, he met good people, only good people, who took him into custody.
The story that grandfather Hugo tells his granddaughter is moving, full of love, courage, music and cats
From the age of 6 and for the whole family Duration of the show: 50 minutes
The show: The Miracle Elevator
- Based on the book by Annie Schmidt
- Writing: Shoham Smith
- Directed by: Hagar Ben Zaken
- Set and costume design: Lia Jose
- Motion design: Amr Shemer
- Sound designer: Alberto Schwartz
- Lighting designer: Yair Segal
- Actors: Rimon Carmi, Eran Lachman, Yuli Seker, Amir Petar, Carmel Kendal
Eddie, a young boy with dreams, from a remote Dutch town is hired as an elevator boy at the Kenutz department store. Already on his first day on the job, Eddie does not hold back and presses the one button in the elevator that should not be pressed under any circumstances.
The elevator takes off into the sky and its four passengers become a kind of flying family and together experience exciting adventures and a journey of getting to know each other and growing up. Musical comedy.
Ages 5 and up Duration of the show: about 50 minutes
Ticket sales for the festival shows have opened online at the following link:
To purchase tickets for the festival of children's plays, go to the link:
and at the festival box office 04-8600500 extension 1
The price of a ticket to watch each show is 20 NIS or alternatively - there is another option where you can purchase a ticket to watch the show + support for the creators and actors at a cost of 30 NIS.
Rental period for each viewing ticket (24 hours).