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The Cameri, Tel Aviv, 1944, is Israel's biggest theatre and one of the country's six public theatres.
Each year The Cameri stages up to ten new productions, together with twenty productions from previous years, that is performed before audiences totalling 900,000 people in Tel Aviv, throughout Israel and all over the world - some 1,700 performances every year. The Cameri has 34,000 subscribers. So far, The Cameri has produced some 500 productions on its various stages. The theatre's company includes eighty of Israel's finest actors, and its plays are directed by celebrated directors from Israel and abroad.
In 2003 The Cameri moved into its new and sophisticated home in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center complex, adjacent to the New Israeli Opera, the Municipal Library and the Tel Aviv Museum. The New Cameri Theatre's six auditoriums constitute a modern, vibrant and active theatrical centre: Cameri 1, the big auditorium, seats 930, Cameri 2 seats 430, Cameri 3 with revolving seats 165, Cameri 4 seats 160 and Cameri 5, the Rehearsal Hall. Added to that is the Theatre Café (100 seats), where the audience is invited to sit at small tables and enjoy chamber performances by Cameri Theatre actors and guest performers, usually after shows.
Three years ago, The Cameri Theatre was awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement and Special Contribution to Society and the State of Israel. In their decision, the judges noted: "The sixty-year-old Cameri Theatre is a young, involved, responsive, socially-oriented theatre that is attentive to the reality in which we live and responds to current needs. The Cameri Theatre is engaged in fostering and developing original Israeli drama and strengthening ties with the finest culture and modern drama in the world. “
In the theatre's productions - original Israeli plays and plays from world drama - the emphasis placed on social, value and political issues that are at the centre of the Israeli public's life. Even the classical plays included in the Cameri's repertoire are selected for their subjects' being close to heart and onto public's agenda.
The theatre has a society of friends headquartered in Tel Aviv with branches in London and New York. Part of The Cameri Theatre is the Institute of Israeli Drama. The Institute, founded by the Cameri's director general - Noam Semel, aims to the advancement of Israeli drama in Israel and abroad, and the deepening of awareness to the importance of original drama for the emergent Israeli culture.
The Institute holds international conferences, at which the works of Israeli playwrights are presented to conference participants.
Omri Nitzan, the theatre's artistic director for the past twelve years, has directed classical, modern and Israeli dramas in all of Israel's theatres. He has directed many of Shakespeare's plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Richard the Third, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, and many more). He also directs operas.
THE STAFF
Noam Semel, Director General
Omri Nitzan, Artistic Director
The Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center
19 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.
Tel Aviv
Israel
Varda@cameri.co.il
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.