Amok – Malenky Theater

Winner of the 2022 "Golden Hedgehog" Award for Actor of the Year - Dudu Niv. Performance in Hebrew with Russian subtitles. By: Stefan Zweig. Hebrew translation: Roy Chen. Adaptation and direction: Michael Teplitzky. Set design: Polina Adamov. Music: Yevgeni Levitas. Choreography: Lena Rosenberg. Costume design: Yehudit Aharon. Lighting design: Misha Chernivsky, Ina Malkin. Shadow theater: Ksenia Moroz. Assistant director: Yasmin Bar Shalom Agmon. Cast: Dudu Niv, Anna Dobrovitsky, Uri Lavanon, Ksenia Moroz. A thrilling psychological drama centered on a deadly love obsession. "...am I living in amok? Do you even know what 'amok' is? Amok, in the Malay language, means 'a fit of rage leading to murder.' It is a psychotic state, usually defined by psychiatrists as a syndrome common among residents of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the surrounding regions..." Two men meet on a ship sailing to Europe. One of them is a doctor returning from Malaysia, where he was forced to work. Their meeting reveals the doctor's story — how his professional life had been fairly satisfying, and his life in Malaysia quiet, isolated, and dull, until the moment a woman appeared in his room. A white woman. Beautiful. Noble. But also a woman who needed his help — and from that moment, the doctor's calm, measured life turned into amok. Stefan Zweig was an Austrian-Jewish writer born in Vienna in 1881, who became the most successful and famous author in Germany. But then came the 1930s and Nazi rule, and his books were banned from publication. He was forced into exile in London and continued to wander for years, living in the United States, Argentina, and Paraguay, before settling in Brazil — a country he loved but where he could not put down roots. Zweig ended his life together with his wife, in the resort town of Petrópolis.