The Hill of Black Irises - Orna Porat Theatre for Children and Youth

In order not to disrupt your children's viewing experience, children and toddlers below the recommended viewing age will not be admitted to the hall. For ticket purchases. In the state's early years, during the austerity period and amid waves of immigration, many transit camps (ma'abarot) were set up across the country to absorb the new immigrants. A new transit camp is also set up right across from Moshav Netaim, on the beloved hill where the moshav's children used to play. The moshav's children find it hard to accept the new immigrants, who are different from them, and the encounter between them stirs up suspicion, fear and lack of understanding. Within this reality, despite the gaps in language and culture, a special friendship forms between Yiftach, a boy from the moshav, and Susie, who lives in the nearby transit camp. He teaches her Hebrew, and she tells him about the country she came from. Day after day they meet, talk, gaze out at the sea, and discover a shared world — until a shattering event in the moshav shakes their friendship and puts it to the test. A moving, gripping play about a wonderful friendship that bridges prejudice and cultural gaps, about the ability to see past difference, and about belonging, hopes and dreams — introducing young audiences to a chapter of the state's heritage and history, and to the concepts, voices and values of the period. Play: Adina Haimis. Music: Ilay Shemetz. Language and speech: Anat Zamshtegman. Props: Narkis Alba. Direction and movement: Ido Kolton. Set and costume design: Limor Hershko. Concept development: Ayala Hoffman. Actors: Uri Macharez, Aner Kedem, Noa Sabah.