

Band people sit on corners and play their instruments and songs are sung. Each has a part in the story and connections are made. With these two, a strong cast of townspeople and band members fill the stage. As the show continues, it becomes apparent that the cast has everything and nothing in common. He was so strict with his son that he committed suicide and his late wife could not carry the pain. Sason Gabay is the band conductor Tewfiq, who also carries emotional baggage. There are two primary actors: Janet Dacal as Dina the worn-out proprietor of a dump café who carries her feeling as armour. Just different people slowly connecting with each other and the audience is reduced to tears and wonder watching this miracle happen. What unfolds next is the whisper of a human love story. With no bus out until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals to their homes and their hearts. Pepper’s Lonely-Hearts Club Band uniforms, in this land of sand, sand and more sand, the local residents do not know what to make of them. Welcome to “The Band’s Visit”, a musical that begins with the most fragile of stories, so precious that clapping might disrupt it. They were planning to perform at the Arab Cultural Center in the city of Petah Tikva but wind up instead in the flyblown backwater of Bet Hatikva.


A bus drops off the Alexandria Ceremonial Band from Egypt who inadvertently arrived in a very wrong place.
