Dolly City

“ Dolly City —a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The

most demented city in the world.” In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the

University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides

to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses

with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her

son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the

all-too-familiar Jewish Mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures

taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of Israel’s most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of

motherhood—and its implications in the life of a nation.