The film "My Beloved Aviva" by Shemi Zarchin will be adapted for a stage performance

The wave of film adaptations in the theater is intensifying: Walla!

Culture learned that Habima will stage the first adaptation of the successful film "My Beloved Aviva" written and directed by Shemi Zarchin.

The adaptation will be written by Erez Driggs, the director will probably be Moshe Kaftan, castings have not been determined but the possibility of casting Asi Levy for her unforgettable role is being considered.

Sagi Ben Nun

21/03/2022

Monday, 21 March 2022, 17:24 Updated: 22:12

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Assi Levy and Rotem Abohav in the film "My Beloved Aviva", which will be adapted for a play at the Habima Theater (Photo: screenshot, from the film "My Beloved Aviva")

The wave of stage adaptations for films continues.

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Tarbut learned that the Habima Theater will stage the first adaptation of the acclaimed and successful film "My Beloved Aviva", written and directed by Shemi Zarchin and released in 2006. The film won six Ophir Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress Award.

The film garnered additional awards in Israel and around the world, and was watched by about 300,000 people.

The play is scheduled to go up during this year at the National Theater.

The stage adaptation of Zarchin's screenplay will be written by Erez Driggs, and the director will probably be Moshe Kaftan, Habima's artistic director.

Castings have not yet been determined.

According to sources in the theater, there is a reasonable possibility that Assi Levy will return to her unforgettable role, but this has not yet been decided.

According to the same sources, phosphorus is expected to be involved in making the show.

Habima confirmed the details, and submitted in response to Walla!

Culture: "'My Beloved Aviva', the best and beloved work of Shemi Zarchin, one of the most prominent films in Israeli cinema of all time, will be shown next season in the repertoire at the National Theater in an adaptation of the play we are currently working on. To be included in the theater's repertoire for the upcoming season. "

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Poster of the film "My Beloved Aviva", which won six Ophir Awards (Photo: PR)

The film deals with the character of Aviva, a 39-year-old kitchen worker living in Tiberias, who is about to fulfill her big dream and become a writer.

She entrusts her fate to a well-known writer who promises to change her life.

But the tangle of problems of her family, as well as the surprising discovery of the writer's real plans, undermine her world and turn the big dream into a nightmare.

This is another stage adaptation of an Israeli film that has recently become a show, in what has become a phenomenon, against the background of the theaters' longing to cling to hits.

As first reported in Walla!

Culture, Habima will also stage its first stage adaptation based on the film "Life According to Agfa" written and directed by Asi Dayan, and this year marks 30 years since its release.

After the film came out, a German stage adaptation came up that ran for a year, however in the country so far there has been no stage adaptation.

The adaptation is expected to be signed by playwrights Shlomit Arnon Bar-Lev and Einat Baranowski.

This is after another stage adaptation of Asi Dayan's film, "Givat Halfon Ina Ona" directed by Moshe Kaftan, which came out in March 2019, was released in November. Walla!

Culture that Habima is examining the possibility of uploading an adaptation of the film "Get" written and directed by Ronit Alkabetz and Shlomi Alkabetz, but it is not known what the chances are that this will mature.

Beit Lessin Theater is trying to recreate the great success of the musical "Zero in Human Relations", which was a cinematic adaptation of a film written and directed by Talia Lavie, when two months ago he staged another musical adaptation of another successful film - "Crossing the Wall" by Haredi director and screenwriter Rama Burstein .

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