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or Habimah
(Hebrew; " Stage ")
Hebrew theatre company.
Organized in Poland in 1912, it was reestablished in 1917 in Moscow, where it was encouraged by The Dybbuk (1922) established it as a company of high artistic merit, and it became affiliated with the Moscow Art Theatre . After producing The Golem (1925), the group toured Europe and the U.S. In 1931 most of the group moved to Tel Aviv, where they presented Yiddish and biblical dramas and a repertory of Israeli, classical, and contemporary foreign plays. In 1958 it became the National Theatre of Israel.
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stage design
stage machinery
arena stage
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