London (Woof Woof!)

What was supposed to be an obsessive dream vacation in London’s West End quickly turns into a mad survival journey. When two Israeli friends, theater and musical fanatics, land in the British capital for an extreme theater marathon, they discover that present-day London is less “Mary Poppins” and more a battle zone rife with antisemitism and demonstrations. As if trying to navigate a hostile city weren’t enough to ruin their opening-night performance of Les Misérables, the trip spirals completely out of control. The past pursues them in the form of an obsessive, unrestrained ex-girlfriend who flew in especially to ruin everything, and if that weren’t enough, an ostensibly routine late-night encounter with a local escort takes an absurd turn when she is revealed to be a furious radical pro-Palestinian activist. Between witty punchlines, arguments on the Underground, and desperate attempts to make it to the theater before the third bell, the play examines the fault line between blind, obsessive love for musicals and the bizarre, hostile reality of being Israeli in today’s Europe.