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A Period of Adjustment By Tennessee Williams Play: 596 Opening: 13/05/2006 Translated by Shlomi Moskoviz & Yariv Gotlieb Directed by Dedi Baron Set Design Lili Ben Nachshon Costume Design Einat Nir Music Edit Ori Vidislavski Lighting Meir Alon CAST Ralph Rami Heuberger George, his war buddy Ohan Knoler Isabel, George’s wife Klara Huri Dorothea, Ralph’s wife Dorit Lev Ari Mr. McGillicuddy, Dorothea’s father Arie Moskuna Mrs. McDillicudy, Dorothea’s mother Orna Rotberg Christmas Eve in an American suburb, 1958. Just married, George takes his new bride Isabel to meet Ralph, his friend in arms, to share the holiday season. HE and Ralph fought together in the Korean War, which left both of them emotionally and physically scarred. Arriving at Ralph’s, George and Isabel find out that Dorothea, Ralph’s wife, has just walked out on him, taking their child with her. As snow settles outside, the idyllic Christmas scene begins to dissolve. The play slowly reveals in a poignant yet comic way each couple’s past and future dreams, their marital difficulties and their attempts to bridge the gaps of their past residues of war, with future hopes marked by the bittersweet reality of their marital relationships. Tennessee Williams wrote Period of Adjustment in 1958 but since then it has not been seen on stage until just recently. His many other plays include ‘A Streetcar Named Desire\ (for which he wont the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948), ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and ‘The Glass Menagerie’ .

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