Mein Kampf
Israeli premiere of the 1987 black comedy by Jewish-Hungarian playwright George Tabori

Photo: Eyal Landesman

In a forgotten basement, under the butcher shop, there’s a place where, for a few pennies, the homeless can rent a bed and get a little something to eat. Here lives a homeless man by the name of Herzl who makes a living peddling Bibles and the Kama Sutra while trying to write his book. A new arrival, a homeless man named Hitler, is an aspiring painter trying to get accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts. Making up the trio is a homeless former chef, Lobkowitz, who believes he’s God. Relationships, possible and impossible, form between these three and others sheltered there, covering the gamut of human emotions.

The audience who come to the basement will also be among the homeless: sitting on their beds, drinking with them, and taking part in their sorrows and joys in an intimate proximity.

Playwright: George Tabori
Translated by: Shimon Levy
Director: Gil Alon
Set design & costume design: Ofra Maezawa
Producer: Einat Besser
Production: Gilboa Theatre and the Academy of Performing Arts
Cast in order of appearance: Ofer Peer | Lupo Bercovici | Shlomi Bertonov | Roy Assaf | Daphne Tadmor Levi | Tracy Abramovici/Natalie Fainstein | Elad Rot

The Post Office A | Duration: 2 hrs.