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Suddenly
Based on Etgar Keret's book of short stories "Suddenly, a Knock at the Door"

​Amid the sun-glinted spires of a forsaken Gotham, a storyteller gets the ultimate assignment. In this gritty puppet cinema epic adapted from Tel Aviv-based writer Etgar Keret’s darkly funny short story collection Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, Israeli director Zvi Sahar and PuppetCinema (Salt of the Earth, 2014 Next Wave) employ cameras, puppets, and object theater to immerse audiences in a dystopian world where competing narratives lend calm to the chaos. Mountains of rusted metals and ruins form the disenchanted landscape in which a writer must create, no matter the cost, ultimately finding freedom in the depths of his fiction.




​Directed by Zvi Sahar

Adapted by Zvi Sahar and Oded Littman
Dramaturgy by Oded Littman
Set and costume design by Aya Zaiger
Music by Gai Sherf
Sound Effects by Kobe Shmueli

Lighting design by Ofer Laufer
Puppets by Gili Kozin Ulmer , Yana Malishev , Amira Pinkas
Puppettry Director: Goni Paz


Collaborating Artists and Performers:
Goni Paz / Ayelet Golan, Puppeteer
Dani Halifa, Cinematographer
Ilya Kreines, Cinematographer
Simcha Barbiro, Actor
Assaf Solomon, Actor
Neta Plotnick, Actor
Yuval Segal, Actor



Assistant Director Dani Levi
Co-Assisting Director Yoel Rizenkier 

‘Suddenly’ development was supported by  Asylum Small grant and Gettysburg College Research & Development Grant (for Designer Eric Berninghausen).
‘Suddenly’ was developed in part by the Visiting Artist program of Israel Institute, Washington, D.C., the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland.
With the following collaborators: Leslie Strongwater (Dramaturge and Production), Eric Berninghausen (Designer), Mark Costello (Cinematographer, light and projection), Tyler Gunther (Puppet Designer), Chelsey McLaughlin (Puppeteer) & Nitsan Scharf (Puppeteer).

Work in Progress video

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