Jerusalem highlights March 8-14
| Published date | 08 March 2024 |
| Author | HAGAY HACOHEN |
| Publication title | Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel) |
Watch the film Saltburn, directed by Emerald Fennell, a visually stunning Gothic tale about lower-class student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), who is invited by the aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) to visit his family's estate.
Screened at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, this is a black comedy for anyone a little bit Anglophile. 9 p.m. English with Hebrew titles. NIS 41 per ticket. 11 Hebron Rd. Call 565-4333 to book.
SATURDAY, MARCH 9
Enjoy an Irish night with The Bloomers at Nocturno and unwind with Star of the County Down, The Hare in the Corn, and The Three Scones of Boxty. 8:30 p.m. 7 Bezalel St. NIS 70 per ticket at presale/ NIS 80 at the box office. Call Amit at 054-771-7442 to book.
SUNDAY, MARCH 10
Meet Dr. Sarai Aharoni, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Gender Studies Program, and learn about the complexities of documenting sex crimes committed by Hamas against Israeli citizens via the prism of feminist-oriented archives.
The discussion will be held at the National Library at 2 p.m. Hebrew only. Admission is free upon preregistration. Offered as part of the "Meet the Scholar" series of lectures. Learn more via www.nli.org.il/he/visit/events/sarai-aharoni.
MONDAY, MARCH 11
Watch a new theater comedy, Between Holy and Holon, by playwright Daniel Lapin about the tension between religious and secular life – inside one person. Yehuda Weiss (Avi Kushnir) leads a double life, with one haredi family and one secular family. This double life becomes too much when his secular daughter brings home a haredi would-be partner.
This Beit Lessin Theatre Hebrew performance is presented with English titles. 8:30 p.m. Jerusalem Theatre, 20 Marcus St. NIS 110-NIS 220 per ticket. Call 560-6755 to book.
TUESDAY, MARCH 12
Watch Jeffrey Sweet's 1983 play The Value of Names in an English-language production by director Aryeh Weisberg and Theatre Zion. Set in the 1980s, a young actress (Esther Eisenberg as Norma) seeks permission from her father, Benny Silverman (Yehoshua Looks), to change her name.
She wants a different name so she can work with a director, Leo Greshen (David Golinkin), who, decades ago, turned her father in to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Sweet's often-produced play touches on the powerful themes of guilt, forgiveness, and what people are willing to do to get ahead. 7:30 p.m. at the Khan Theater. The last performance is set for Saturday, March 23, at...
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