Aspamia Ensemble presents: Reflections, written and directed by Dalia Shimko

A comedic drama built like a juicy layer cake of conflicts, revealed one by one on stage. It is a funny, witty play that looks ironically at theater and life.

The play Reflections is built like a juicy layer cake of conflicts, revealed one by one on stage. It is a funny, witty play that looks ironically at theater and life.

At the center of the play are Daniel and Karin, a couple experiencing a marital crisis. Karin is nearly twenty years younger than Daniel, and a deep gap in values has opened between them. The chaotic Israeli reality is wearing Karin down, and she dreams of moving to Berlin to live a normal life. Daniel, the "salt of the earth," insists that Israel is the only home for him.

But are Daniel and Karin real characters—or mirrors of the internal conflict of Eddie, a theater creator trying to direct his own life and his work? The play moves between reality and theater-within-theater, revealing with subtle humor and loving irony the hidden world of the rehearsal room: what really happens between a director and actors, how a production is born, and what happens when the gun that didn't appear in the first act insists on appearing in the third.

This is a smart, realistic, and amusing play that examines the meaning of love, loyalty, patriotism, self-fulfillment, and the battle of the sexes within a bruised and ethically broken Israeli society.

Cast:

Eddie: Eyal Shechter

Daniel / Tom: Tomer Galron

Karin / Goni: Yuli Movchin

Daria: Dalia Shimko

Creative Team:

Playwright and Director: Dalia Shimko

Set and Costume Design: Dalia Shimko

Lighting Design: Denia Zemer

Assistant Directors: Noam Guriel, Le Vie Rosenblatt

Production: Nitzan Noyman

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