Krum returns to his sleepy hometown from abroad and announces that everything he planned for his life has failed. Soon, it becomes evident that everyone else is also still stuck in the same rut. Everyone continues from where they left off. Everything is standing still, paralyzed, in a constant state of expectation and hope. Thus, Krum’s life becomes a waiting game, during which he sees life itself – in its enormity and unfathomability – flow past him. Drunk from his dreams and scared of life, Krum feels that he gradually keeps losing control over reality, and that throws his poor human soul into an ever growing chaos.

O projectionist,
Darken the cinema,
So we will not see each other,
And will not have to
Look each other in the eye.

And now,
Show us a film…

Spiked with humor, “Krum” is an existentialist Absurdist play, a classic by Hanoch Levin, the most famous playwright of Israel. Written in 1972 and having been produced a lot all around the world, the play sharply dissects bourgeois life that runs past people like a film.