Award-winning Dai Comes to Capital for Short Run

Iris Bahr’s sell out Edinburgh fringe hit, Dai, is to travel to central London for eight performances at the Shaw Theatre from 11-17 March. Dai, which is Hebrew for enough, won the prestigious Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show in an off Broadway production in 2008 and was also performed at the United Nations in New York.

The one woman play takes place in a Tel Aviv café just moments before a suicide bombing attack and takes a look at the humans behind the headlines. Critically acclaimed writer and performer Iris Bahr has appeared on screen in such cult classics as Friends, The Drew Carey Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Her new play brings life to eleven characters who span the ideological & physical spectrum of Israeli society.

Alternately comic and tragic, Dai immerses the audience in the lives of various colourful characters who enthusiastically share their stories, unaware of their imminent fate. Amoung the characters that Bahr brings to life are a Zionist Kibbutnik, an extremist West Bank Settler, a snooty expat living in Long Island (married to Moti of Moti’s limousines), a Christian Evangelist in Israel to build a Rapture Center, and a Palestinian Professor desperate to steer her son away from extremism whilst dealing with her family’s hopeless circumstances.

– Kate Jackson