Gad Kaynar

regional managing editor

g.kaynar@thetheatretimes.com

Gad Kaynar is the former Chair of the Theatre Arts Department in Tel Aviv University, General Secretary to Israel Centre of the International Theatre Institute (I.T.I.), and Chairman of the General Union of Writers in Israel. His books include: New German Drama (1984), The Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv (2008), and forthcoming The Reality Convention in Hebrew Theatre and Recent German Dramaturgy. Kaynar is a recipient of an 'Israel Science Foundation' grant (2004) for research on Applied Dramaturgy, and for a study revising the socio-political role of mainstream theatre (2010).

Shifting Perspectives in the Contemporary Israeli Political Theatre

Posted by Gad Kaynar | 18th Sep 2016 | Essay, Israel

The late Israeli critic, Dr. Shosh Avigal, wrote in 1996 that: “It is private life that is...

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