Like Lovers Do

What It’s About 

“Like Lovers Do,” written by Sivan Ben Yishai, is a radical and deeply poetic exploration of the dark depths of romantic love. Ben Yishai dissects the language, imagery, and promises we use to draw closer to one another. She mercilessly exposes how deeply these are permeated by control, social expectations, and possessiveness. What begins as a search for closeness often turns out to be a web of power and violence. The play navigates a constant tension between desire and destruction, between longing and the harsh reality of patriarchal structures.

Why you should come 

Experience a narrative space that explores the boundaries between intimacy and repulsion through rapid, often fragmented scenes: Here, the characters strive ceaselessly to penetrate one another, yet repeatedly come up against the roles imposed upon them. In the process, the private love affair becomes a sharp mirror reflecting larger structures of violence: between the sexes, between bodies, and between the ideologies of our time. Anyone ready for theater that doesn’t soothe but provokes, hurts, and lingers long in the memory will be gripped by this exploration of modern romance.

Pssst! 

Sivan Ben Yishai is one of the most frequently staged and radical playwrights of our time. Her texts are known for their rhythmic power and unyielding political stance. “Like Lovers Do” is a furious reckoning with the myths and conditions that continue to shape us today.