Pnina Gary
Pnina Gary | |
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פנינה גרי | |
Born | Pnina Dromi September 24, 1927 |
Died | August 2, 2023 Tel Aviv, Israel | (aged 95)
Occupations |
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Spouse |
Robert Gary
(m. 1949; died 1987) |
Children | 2, including Meirav Gary |
Relatives | Michael Cohen (grandson) |
Pnina Gary (Hebrew: פנינה גרי; née Dromi; September 24, 1927 – August 2, 2023) was an Israeli actress and theatre director.[1]
Biography
Pnina Dromi was born and raised in Nahalal, Mandatory Palestine, the daughter of Yosef Dromi (previously Kotlar) and Tzipora Ostrowski. Her parents made aliyah from the Ukraine in 1919. Gary attended to Nahalal's Agricultural High School, and later the teachers' seminar to become a kindergarten teacher.
In March 1948, during Israel's
In September 1948, trying to recover from the outcome of the Beit Keshet battle, she volunteered to participate in an expedition of teachers to the
In
Gary wrote a weekly column for Davar, an Israeli newspaper, for two years.
Pnina Gary died in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023, at the age of 95.[3]
Artistic career
From 1953 through 1957, Pnina Gary studied acting in New York, in the private schools of Herbert Berghof and Lee Strasberg, and took lessons in the Actors Studio. After their return to Israel, in 1959, she co-founded the Zavit Theater, which was active for nine years and among others produced Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit", featuring Gary herself.[4] During those years, she also acted in various theater shows produced by other theaters in Tel Aviv.
In 1968, Gary joined HaBima as an actress, until 1980. From 1981 through 1990 she was the artistic director of the Orna Porat Theater. She adapted a number of novels to theater, by the most renowned Israeli novelists: Amos Oz, Sami Michael, Shulamit Lapid, Tzruya Shalev and Shmuel Yosef Agnon.[citation needed]
Pnina Gary's film appearances as an actress include: The Dock (1960),[5] Dreams (1969),[6] Death Has No Friends (1970),[7] Ariana (1971)[8] and the BBC's A Dinner of Herbs (1988).[9][10]
In 2006, she received an award for her life's work from both the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Education and ASSITEJ.[citation needed]
In 2008, Gary wrote and directed the
On March 28, 2011, a special evening marked the celebrating of 250 shows. Attending that evening, were the
The play was translated to English and performed at The Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival in 2009, at London's New End Theatre from May 18 to June 6, 2010,[12] and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa[13][14][15] as well as Montreal,[16] Toronto[17] and Washington, D.C.,[18][19][20] in September 2011. The show was also performed in the Harold Green Jewish Theatre in Toronto in 2014.[21]
In 2011, Gary directed "Tmol Shilshom" (Only Yesterday), the novel by Shmuel Yosef Agnon which she adapted to theatre, and in 2012 Gary staged "My Name is Yuda", a poetry theater show based on the poems of Yehuda Amichai, which also featured Adi Bielski.[22]
In 2013, Gary directed in Paris the French production of "An Israeli Love Story" (in French) under the name Une histoire d'amour israélienne, played by French actress Estelle Grynszpan.[23]
In 2015, Gary published an autobiographical novel in Hebrew under the same title as the Hebrew title of the monodrama "An Israeli Love Story". The book was published under Schocken Books.
In 2016, the Hebrew language film, Sipur Ahava Eretz-Israeli (An Israeli Love Story) was released, directed by Dan Wolman and starring Adi Bielski[24] based on Gary's life's story and the monodrama [clarification needed] by the same name.
References
- ^ Pnina Gary’s filmography (in Hebrew)
- Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2010
- ^ אשת התיאטרון פנינה גרי הלכה לעולמה בגיל 95 (in Hebrew)
- ^ McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, 1984, p. 322.
- ^ "The Dock" Archived August 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, cine-holocaust.de. Accessed December 4, 2022.
- IMDb
- IMDb
- IMDb
- IMDb
- ^ A Dinner of Herbs, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift. Accessed December 4, 2022.
- ^ An Israeli Love Story Archived June 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, HaniTheater.com. Accessed December 4, 2022.
- ^ An Israeli Love Story, offwestendtheatres.co.uk. Accessed December 4, 2022.
- ^ Jennifer Mcintosh, An Israeli Love Story in Ottawa, yourottawaregion.com. August 24, 2011.
- ^ Sabine Gibbins, An Israeli Love Story Coming to Ottawa Sept. 7-8 Archived April 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine September 1, 2011, Ottawa South EMC.
- ^ Patrick Langston,
A bounty of plays this month Archived October 1, 2013, at the The Ottawa Citizen.
- ^ Israeli play comes to Montreal Archived September 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Sep 6, 2011, The Jewish Tribune
- ^ An Israeli Love Story – September 15 Archived April 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine August 29, 2011, ShalomCanada.com
- ^ An Israeli Love Story – about love and Israel Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine by Lisa Traiger, September 7, 2011, Washington Jewish Week.
- ^ Laura Cutler, About Love and Israel – An Israeli Love Story, September 9, 2011, American University website.
- ^ One woman production depicts epic 'love story' Archived November 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- Toronto Centre for the Artswebsite.
- ^ "My Name is Yuda": The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai at Tzavta, midnighteast.com. Accessed December 4, 2022.
- ^ "Une histoire d'amour israélienne", at "Théâtre Darius Milhaud" website.
- IMDb
External links
- Pnina Gary at IMDb
- All About Jewish Theatre - Pnina Gary: An Israeli Love Story - An article by David Or @ www.jewish-theatre.com
- Rescuing Ben-Zvi's shack, Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz, Dec 1, 2008
- Theatre review: An Israeli Love Story @ New End Theatre, Franco Milazzo, Londonist, May 21, 2010
- An Israeli Love Story - New End Theatre, Indie London, 2010
- An Israeli Love Story - New End Theatre, Nina Caplan, Time Out London, May 24, 2010