Krum

by Hanoch Levin, Giovana Soar (Translator)

Escrita pelo dramaturgo israelense Hanoch Levin, Krum acontece entre dois enterros e dois casamentos. A peça mostra o retorno do personagem-título a sua casa depois de uma viagem à Europa. Ao chegar, de mãos vazias, ele confessa que não vivenciou nada e que nem mesmo no exterior foi capaz de encontrar o que buscava. No desenrolar da trama, Krum reencontra os curiosos habitantes de seu mundo — a mãe, os amigos, a antiga namorada, os vizinhos — e episódios se sucedem, provocando os espectadores/leitores a se identificarem com a perspectiva distanciada e irônica do protagonista. A montagem brasileira da peça, criada pela companhia brasileira de teatro, de Marcio Abreu, em parceria com a atriz Renata Sorrah, recebeu os prêmios Cesgranrio de melhor espetáculo teatral; Shell RJ de melhor ator e cenário; APTR de melhor iluminação e melhor espetáculo, e Questão de Crítica, nas categorias melhor elenco e melhor iluminação.

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Hanoch Levin (1943-1999), one of Israel`s leading dramatists, was born in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a religious home in the Neve Shaanan neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv. As a child, he attended the Yavetz State Religious School. In the 1950s, his brother, David, who was nine years older than him, worked as an assistant director at the Cameri Theater. Hanoch attended Zeitlin Religious High School in Tel Aviv. After ninth grade, he left school to help support the family. He worked as a messenger boy for the Herut company and took classes at a night school for working youth at the Ironi Aleph middle school. There he joined a drama club. After serving his compulsory military duty, Levin began to study philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University (1964-1967).
At first he wrote poetry, but later concentrated on the theater. He became resident playwright of the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and also worked with Habimah, Israel`s national theater.
Levin wrote 50 plays, 34 of which have been staged. His work includes comedies, tragedies and satiric cabarets, most of which he directed himself. In addition, he published five books of short stories and poems and a book for children. He received numerous theater awards both in Israel and abroad - most notably at the Edinburgh Festival -and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994.