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| To date, David has directed
over 60 productions in Israel and abroad
(in the US, Denmark, Belgium, and Romania). Almost all of
David's productions have been marked by radical adaptations,
unconventional performance spaces, simultaneous staging and
fractured timelines, a body of work that constitutes an ongoing
investigation into the nature of communication, perception
and imagery in the theatre, together with an innovative approach
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| Drawn to the extraordinarily innovative tradition
of Romanian theatre David's first contact there was with the internationally-acclaimed
Hungarian State
Theatre of Cluj Invited in 2002 by Artistic Director Gabor Tompa
to direct the famous Jewish play The
Dybbuk, David created, together with designer-collaborator
Miriam Guretzky, a greatly revised version of the play (renamed White
Fire/Black Fire) which was universally hailed by Romanian theatre
critics and audiences alike (Reviews),
and was nominated as one of three finalists for the award of Best
Production of 2002 by the Romanian Theatre Union (UNITER). Lead actress,
Imola Kezdi, won the coveted Best Actress Award for her role of Leah
in that production. The production remained in the theatre's repertoire for five years before finally being retired in 2007. |
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This landmark production at the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj was followed in 2004 by a radical change of pace: the Hungarian premiere of a Tom Stoppard double-bill: After Magritte and The Real Inspector Hound.
Reviews.
In 2005 David returned to the classics with designer/collaborator Miriam Guretzky and directed his highly political adaptation of Euripedes' The Bacchae, which opened in December of that year. Reviews.
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| And working for the first time with the Tamasi
Aron Theatre of Sfantu Gheorghe in Romania, in March 2006 David
directed a production of Macbeth,
collaborating once again with designer Miriam Guretzky. Reviews. |
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| In December 2006 David directed his first professional production in the US: Don
Perlimplin and His Love for Belisa in the Garden, by Federico Garcia Lorca. The play was performed at Cal Rep Theatre in Long Beach California.
Reviews.
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In March 2008 David's production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt opened to mixed reviews at the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj, where once again he collaborated with designer Miriam Guretzky and lighting designer Yaron Abulafia, who was awarded a national prize for his lighting design (See Reviews)
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In 2010 David was invited to another Hungarian-speaking theatre in Romania, this time the Tompa Miklos company in Targu Mures, where he directed
Six Characters in Search of an Author. David is due to return to the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj in 2013 for a production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, and has also been invited to direct in India and in Switzerland in 2012.
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