Theatre is an art form that unfolds through time, that remold temporal experiences for the spectator, and that brings other times to the stage to interact with the present time of the performance. As such, theatre participates in the ways in which culture experiences, imagines and shapes it time: its perception of the present, memory of the past, and expectations for the future. All these have deep political and social implications. For Hebrew culture, time was and still is a pressing issue: Zionism was perceived as an attempt to return the Jews "into history", but Hebrew culture's relation to the present is fraught with the persistence of the Jewish past and with messianic urges towards the future. How does Hebrew theatre negotiate these issues? How does it construct and deconstruct the present time of theatrical performance, and how do the past and the future reverberate in it? How does the theatre challenge and reaffirm the cultural imagination regarding time? In this seminar we will explore these questions by examining key plays in Hebrew theatre.