Directing Projects

Introduction

Directing Projects

Song of Blood

Directing Projects

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 to the performance of tragedy in the postmodern age.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)