You Only Live Once – A Comedy About Friendship, Dreams and Death – The Israeli Comedy Festival

Premiere performance. Two teenage girls meet in a drama class and connect. In a café with a cinema, they develop a language together, speaking in the voice they imagine they'll have when they grow up and can finally be themselves. Two girls who become young women move in to live together. Both dream of the stage, of uncompromising love, and of a sense of belonging to the big city. Two girls who become women in their forties, both with children, a partner, a career and a home. They miss each other, the girls they once were, the apartment they nurtured, and themselves. Together for the first time on the same stage, at the crossroads of midlife, they offer a sweet, bittersweet and comforting testimony to the promises of their youth, asking what they've kept, what has died, and what must still come true — perhaps even tonight. Creators and performers: Rotem Goldenberg and Neta Spiegelman. Director: Yael Tal. Music: Naama Redler. Artistic accompaniment and direction: Yiftach Leibovitch. Set and costume design: Yasmin Steinmetz. Lighting design: Matan Preminger. Assistant director and stage manager: Nelia Pashin. Production manager: Avia Hadida. Photography: Yair Meyuhas. Thanks to: Orit Mamrod, Lilach Raz and Alit Krayz. The show was produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Israeli Comedy Festival by the Incubator Theatre, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts, and AIB – the Independent Theatre and Performing Arts Creators' Organization.