A Play in Broken English

Szenische Lesung auf Englisch

Text: Amir Zloter | Regie: Kerem Hillel

Sonnabend, 07.06. + Sonntag, 08.06.2025, 20.00 Uhr

When you’re not a native English speaker, the English that comes out of your mouth isn’t quite English – it’s a hybrid language, shaped by your mother tongue, your education, your self-confidence (or lack of it), and the
emotional weather of the moment.
A PLAY IN BROKEN ENGLISH follows Ella, a young Israeli actress chasing her big break in Berlin, where she crosses paths with Valentyn, a Ukranian director. As they fumble their way through mixed signals, translations, and
cross-cultural chemistry, Ella begins to receive messages from home – fragmented, surreal, and terrifying. Israel, it seems, is vanishing, slowly and incomprehensibly, off the face of the earth.
Presented as a staged reading, this intimate format highlights the rawness of the text and the vunerability of the characters, inviting the audience to lean in and listen between the lines. Through humour, longing, and disorientation, the play explores what it means to perform – as an actor, as a refugee, as a human being who no longer knows how to introduce themselves.
It’s a story for anyone who has ever had to leave, and for anyone who has ever struggled to be understood.