Hanoch Levin
Please join us for a staged reading of
LABOUR OF LIFE
by Israeli poet-playwright Hanoch Levin
A play with three songs
Direction and Music by Adam Seelig
Cast, in order of appearance:
Daniel Kash – Yona Popukh
Theresa Tova – Leviva Popukh
Cyrus Faird – Gunkel
2:30pm, Sunday, January 26, 2020 in Toronto
Meridian Arts Centre (Toronto Centre for the Arts), 5040 Yonge Street, Toronto (map)
Produced by the Harold Green Jewish Theatre
In association with One Little Goat
Free. By reservation — to reserve call: 416.932.9995 x224
Sasson Gabai (left), Yithak Hizkiyahu and Liora Rivlin in the 2012 Tel Aviv production.
SYNOPSIS
In Labour of Life (Melechet Hachaim, 1989, translated from the Hebrew), married couple Yona and Leviva Popukh argue through the night and are briefly visited by their acquaintance Gunkel. A misanthropic comedy, Labour of Life explores the pains and pleasures of living both alone and together.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hanoch Levin (1943-1999) was the great poet among Israeli playwrights… Like Harold Pinter, Levin could delve deep into a family's dysfunctionality; like Tom Stoppard, he could take form and make it the essence of the play…. Levin wrote theatre of the absurd without becoming absurd. His plays do not provide any answers: he just posed questions…
To read the complete obituary in The Guardian, click here