"What Happened to Us"

What Happened to Us

Thursday, 25.02.2027, 20:30 | Yifat Performing Arts Hall

Senior citizen / council resident / active-duty soldier (upon presentation of valid identification only): NIS 109

Regular ticket: NIS 129

Relationships in Wartime

Written and performed by: Yiftach Klein and Shiri Artzi

“What Happened to Us” is a moving, funny, and thought-provoking play about a couple during wartime (and peace). The story begins two weeks before the events of October 7 and unfolds across the time that has passed since then.

Shiri Artzi and Yiftach Klein, a married couple in life and on stage, present everyday moments from the absurd reality of the past two and a half years in all our lives—openly, movingly, and humorously.

They distill the material of the period’s collective experience and examine, with compassion and humor, the questions occupying most of us: How do we live through a time that does not truly “return to normal”? What happens to relationships, parenthood, or routine when intimacy is required to enter a perpetual “state of emergency”?

“What Happened to Us” is an honest and authentic play about how to continue loving, arguing, laughing, and staying together even amid the great storm of our lives.

“Highly recommended.” “I haven’t laughed like that, enjoyed myself, or been moved like that in many years.” “I didn’t feel time passing, and I didn’t want it to end.” “Everyone will identify with this.”

Shiri Artzi is a screenwriter, television professional, and author. She won the Israeli Academy of Television Award for Best Drama Series Screenplay for “In Therapy” and the Minister of Culture Award for Best Debut Book for “Mud” (Hargol, 2006).

Yiftach Klein is an actor who has appeared in and starred in dozens of films, series, and plays. Both have previously created work inspired by their relationship: In 2022, Artzi published “Stories from the Separation,” which deals with separation within a long-term relationship. Klein wrote, directed, and stars in the play “Slide Night,” which deals with a relationship crisis, male vulnerability, and the intersection between the personal and the collective. “What Happened to Us” is their first joint performance, which they created and in which they appear together.

Photography credit: Hanan Asor

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