What Won't Be Done

There's a new play being presented entitled Kol Nidrei.

Here's the promo advert:



Yehoshua Sobol, a bohemian and long-time radical playwright, is its author. He's anti-religious and anti-nationalist. Nu, then what can we expect?

I checked this Hebrew site and this one to find out the plot.

There's a Nahman and Esther. He's in a Kollel and she works in a computer company as the provider. No children. And Nahman has a non-observant lover, Pasquelle, who has just announced she's pregnant by him. Not to be outdone, Esther has a lover, Avsha, Nahman's commander in his reserve army unit who is going "off the way". Nahmna's parmour wants to become religious for his sake and when Esther takes off her religious garb, Pasquelle puts her clothes on herself. Getting into 'secular' garb for a Friday night at a bar, Nahman and Avsha sing Kol Nidrei.

Three of the actors, Menachem Lang, Nadfav Segel and Gili Yoskovicz, were actually observant before becoming secular and supposedly provided Sobol with their personal experiences for material. But many of the reviewers I scanned don't buy the play as entertaining or with cultural value and have panned it.

What won't be done.