"The Secrets" - A Gripping Drama Based on Avi Nesher's Film

Age restriction: 15+ | Use of a non-tobacco cigarette-like stage prop | Performance length: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Shortly after her mother’s death, Naomi Hess arrives at the “Bina VeDa’at” seminary, the daughter of the eminent rabbinical judge from Bnei Brak. Brilliant Naomi is engaged to Michael “the prodigy,” and it seems that the course of her life is laid out before her. But just before the wedding, she asks for one thing: to study Talmud day and night for a year, just like the boys in the yeshiva. And perhaps, deep in her heart, she dares to dream of a future in which she herself becomes a rabbanit.

At the seminary, Naomi encounters a new world of young women, different from one another, each carrying her own story, pain, and secrets. One particularly special and powerful encounter with Michelle’s rebellious character sends them both into a turbulent emotional whirlwind that confronts them with difficult dilemmas from which there is no turning back. This is a story about forbidden love, freedom, and the aspiration to mend the soul. But above all, it is about renewed self-discovery, the courage to be who you are, and the heavy price one must pay to follow that truth.

Written by: Hadar Galron | Adaptation of Avi Nesher’s film | Director: Roni Barנט | Set design: Roni Harad | Costume design: Roni Engelman | Lighting design: Adi Fairnik | Original music: Mia Alpern | Assistant director: Maya Regev | Photo credit: AI