These Are Things //
A journey following the book of Sami Bardugo
He withdrew from his daily environment and took her out of the old people’s home.
Now he asks to teach her Hebrew and she, his Moroccan-born mother, surprises him and releases an elaborate story about a teenage girl named Maha who wanders involuntarily in Morocco and Algeria.
“The Hebrew language does not come first – life comes first,” she says, when between them a mythological generational struggle develops, traveling between Morocco and Israel. Between Amidar’s apartment and the library in Haifa, between what is written and what is spoken, between longing and strangeness, between a mother and a son.
Stage Creation: Hanna Vazana
Stage Editing: Ale Sasberg
Dramaturgy: Ensemble Frechot
Actors/creators: Pazit Yaron Minkovsky, Meny Gross, Eden Uliel, Selly Arkadesh
Set Design & Costumes: Frida Shoam, Jackline Parel,
Music: Omry Mor & Vikor Sason
Music consultant: Meni Gross
Movement: Shachar Berkovitch
Lighting: Adi Somech
Stage Assistant: Noa Ben-Ari
Producer: Avital Michel Meir
Art Consultant: Avi Gibson Barel
Photography: Efrat Mazor
*Premiered at the Holon International Puppet Theater Festival
The work of Zoya Konigsberg and Shoshana Dror Artistic accompaniment and dramaturgy: Brachi Lifshitz, Fabiana Mioyas, Jackie Perel | Visual language: Zoya Konigsberg and Jackie Perel Music: Moran Maizels | Building objects and mechanisms: Tal Shir | Costumes: Orit Shapira Lighting design: Amir Castro Motion design: Inbar Sharon Acting: Zoya Konigsberg, Shoshana Dror Screening of an excerpt from "The Blessing of the Hex" courtesy of the Israeli Film Service Produced with the assistance of: The Fund for Independent Creators -Ministry of Culture and Sports | The Lottery Factory - The Lottery Council for Culture and Art Holon Puppet Theater Center. The work was developed as part of the incubator for female directors of the Lottery Council for Culture and Art under the direction of Hana Wazena and Dafna Karon |
