Jonathan and the work have managed to articulate a moving insight about the role of the extra in society as a whole, and not only in art. About the freedom afforded to marginal figures, beside whom the heroes seem domesticated, almost devoid of imagination. It is a beautiful way of unsettling the question of who tells the story, who is interesting to listen to, what stories we miss when we cling to familiar aesthetics and familiar melodies, and more broadly, what stories we allow ourselves to let slip away, to close ourselves off to, to lose.Read more
Mochiach chose to dedicate her current work to research about the inner world of women, which has been disturbed throughout the war. Only two years back it would never have occurred to me that older women, some my mother’s age and others my grandmother’s age had she been alive, would have to dream that they’re in the Holocaust and must seek refuge, as one of the older performers shared that she’s been dreaming (in a theatrical setting that was perhaps way too literal, when a dream about hiding in a drawer who presented to us by a performer who hid in a huge drawer). I guess our reality is stranger than fiction.Read more
If nothing else, Fusion proved that Gorfung’s prognosis is the last in a long list of things that make him special.Read more