My First Sony

 a funny and touching one-man-show from Israel Arrives ‘Fringe Festival Praha’ for 9 performances!!!

(After successful runs in Israel, U.S.A,  Germany, Slovakia, South Africa, Egypt, Belarus, canada…)

“That night too I woke up and heard Mom and Dad arguing. Mom said to Dad that he was fucking up her life with all his playing around, and his walking out on us and his moods, and she was fed up, fed up: and he answered back that it was hard for him too, and he felt stifled and stuck in a rut, and his time was running out and, he never succeeded in getting anything done; then she said that if he cried less over his wasted time he wouldn´t waste so much time; and he asked her not to be nasty”

This is how the story about the deterioration of an Israeli family, told by Yotam, begins… Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with   documentation, records everything in his children’s tape recorder, “My First Sony”. He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments in his life, such as his parents’ separation and the inevitable ending…

An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel to great acclaim for more than 14 years now, and enjoyed rave reviews:

“A pleasant surprise. It is beautifully crafted and performed” (Judy Unwin, Global T.V., Canada)

Graduate of “The Acting Studio- Nisan Nativ”(1995), B.A. and M.A. degrees in Theatre (with Distinction) from Tel Aviv University (2004).

Artistic Director of the INTERNATIONAL THEATRONETTO FESTIVAL, which hosts one-man-shows from all over the world.

Awarded funding from the “America-Israel Culture Fund”, as recognition of achievements (1994-1998).

Awarded ‘Best Actor’ at the International Children and Youth Festival, Haifa 1997.

Recent work includes: Directing “Messiah” by Martin Sherman, “Enchanted April” by Mathew Barber, “Beyond Theraphy” by Christopher Durang and “Not About Nightingales” by Tenessee Williams, “Two Rooms” by Lee Blessing, “Miss Sara Sampson” by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, “Volunteer Man” by Dan Clancy and “Distracted” by Lisa Loomer.

Acting in Dan Clancy’s “The TimeKeepers” (both in English and Hebrew. Up to now, have been performen in Israel, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Greece) and the jewller in “The Comedy of Errors” by Shakespear (Beer-Sheva Theatre).

“My First Sony” premiered at Israel in 1996, and runs Internationally, ever since, in both English and Hebrew, to great acclaim and rave reviews.