STAGED READING:
“WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WORLD?!”

by Gur Koren
adapted by Alon Pdut
directed by Nathan Motta

August 12-15, 2026

Winner! Israeli Theatre Awards Playwright of the Year (2014)

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Run time: 90 minutes

no intermission

Content Advisory: Adult Language, Adult Situations.

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The story

A sentimental comedy about keeping up when things keep on a-changin’.

Gur Koren’s hilarious and heartfelt “What’s Wrong with the World” sets a collision course between a woman who just wants to see her family happy, and her kids, the younger generation, who might be ruling the world, but don’t necessarily know what to do with it. Bobbie Tucker, a seventy-year-old woman who lives on a ranch, and whose dream is basically to have another grandson or two, embarks on a mission to save her son’s marriage, after he leaves home following a bitter argument with his wife. She drags her husband Hank along on a crazy adventure of two innocent ranchers in the big city. Bobbie isn’t particularly healthy, nor is she young, but her maternal worries give her strengths of which she was herself unaware. Dobama Theatre presents a staged adaptation of the “Texas Adaptation” of this Israeli comedy. This translation is uniquely fascinating in that it demonstrates the Israeli playwright’s/adapter’s perspective on American culture and highlights the universality of family dynamics.