HAZIRA BA-BAIT

HaZira Performance Arts Arena is a unique and significant art organization in the local cultural landscape; at the heart of HaZira’s activities are various disciplines of performance arts and their combination – theatre, dance, music, exhibits and multimedia, special performance and plastic art projects, while focusing on providing a stage for the nurturing of young Jerusalem artists. HaZira Performance Arts Arena was established in 1988 as HaBama Theatre, together with HaKaron Theatre and the School of Visual Theatre. The Association split in 2000, and since then Ha’Zira has served as an alternative stage for theatre, the only one of its kind in the local artistic landscape.

HaZira’s main goals are to thoroughly examine the essence of the work and the performance piece, develop a unique artistic language of a high quality and excellence in each of the areas of activity it hosts. HaZira aims to advance the art of inter-discipline performance, initiates original new productions, and is at the heart of the cultural and artistic dialogue, specifically in Jerusalem and in Israel in general.

HAZIRA BA-BAIT is the platform in which HaZira Performance Arts Arena presents their repertoire in Tel Aviv.  among these shows : 

Gulliver
By Zvi Sahar / PuppetCinema
Based on Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels
After sixteen years at sea, Lemuel Gulliver returns home. Isolated in his room, he refuses to meet
anyone, and talks only with two horses that he bought on his last trip and brought back with him. He is
repulsed by everything and wonders about the fate of the human species.
After five years of self-imposed isolation, he decides to tell his story for the first time to his wife.
Today, he invites you, only you, to listen.
PuppetCinema’s new show Gulliver, is a modern morality play, retelling of Jonathan Swift satire
Gulliver’s Travels. A stage flooded with water and a box containing Gulliver’s thoughts and
memories, expose the inner sanctum of Dr. Gulliver as he intakes humanity in all its glorious
vulnerability. His nightmare is our adventure as we force perspectives never seen before.  Giants,
savages, artists- judge for yourself who is the most horrible creature of us all.