The Rebellions
Date:
Monday (in 140 days)
January 11, 2027, 8:30 – 11:59 at night
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A group of women in an Orthodox neighborhood organizes a refusal of marital relations to save a friend from an abusive marriage. Standing up for their rights, they come into conflict with the traditional community leadership, but do not back down. A powerful drama by Amnon Levy tells the story of female solidarity and the struggle for independence.
Theater toMix presents: The Rebels
A new Israeli play by Amnon Levy
In Mea Shearim, a group of women decided to rebel against community leadership to save one of their own from a miserable and violent marriage. They use the ancient and only effective weapon at their disposal: withholding from their husbands. They refuse to go to the mikveh and begin a sex strike until their friend is freed from the chains of her marriage.
"The Rebels" is a moving and funny drama by Amnon Levy, bringing a women's struggle for equality to the most unexpected place. The women of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood decide that the value of mutual aid for a woman in distress outweighs even the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. They courageously confront the men, suffer excommunication and persecution, yet continue their struggle despite the heavy price.
Levy, who wrote "Shindela" — one of the greatest successes of Israeli theater — returns to the ultra-Orthodox woman in Mea Shearim and documents her struggle for independence. Levy draws inspiration for the play from a similar sex strike that recently took place in Satmar, New York, demanding the release of an agunah. The action there succeeded and shocked the ultra-Orthodox world.
Cast: Shlomo Braba, Rona Lee Shimon, Gil Frank, Tali Sharon, Nati Kluger, Noa Rabinovitz, Meir Toldano, Gil Weiss.
