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6.6.24
Thursday
20:00

Tiny Death | Meital Raz

“I want you to know that my mother and I have the exact same hands. Feminine but rough, with very dry skin, and nails that grow long and strong. My Grandma Gracia had them too, and my daughter got them as well. 
I want you to know that with our hands we can do many things: cut vegetables straight over the pot, braid a quick braid, caress, scratch, pinch really hard, and also do theatre shows. We can instill characters in them and also travel with them to different places. 
I want you to know that in this show, you will see my hands, and hear my voice, I will bring you into my house and into my head.
I want you to come and stay afterwards to talk, because we are alive.”

Created and performed by: Meital Raz
Director and dramaturgy: Yael Biegon Citron

Created as part of the Akko Festival, with support from Mifal Hapais. Approx. 45 mins.

Stagetalk: Following the show, a conversation with creator Meital Raz – comic, puppeteer, actor, creator and performer of the Yasminish character in the production of “Michael”. Winner of the Gold Porcupine award.

“She takes death and life in the palm of her hand, as in an expression, and turns them into a game full of surprises and healthy emotion (an element that is usually not addressed in theatre). And this mental health in the play is, above all, the sensitivity to others and the ability to love. It is sensitive and moving, and full of life.” Nano Shabtai, Haaretz
 

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20.2
Thursday
20:00

On Listening | Prof. David Harel, Prof. Ruth Kanner and the Ruth Kanner Theater Group

A scientist listens to the music of words. A woman of the theater listens to the scientist. The actors of the theater group listen to both and perform. 

A conversation and acting segments on the connection between hearing and listening, intention and understanding. 

Professor Ruth Kanner - a theater director and creator, who has developed a unique and groundbreaking stage language over the years, and Professor David Harel - Israel Prize recipient in 2004, former dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, whose research deals with tools that help artificial intelligence listen, decode and interpret spoken text. 
The Ruth Kanner Theater Group – Since 1988, has been exploring processes on stage to deepen the means of expression in acting, movement, voice work, sound and visual images, stemming from deep listening to personal and artistic truth. 

Duration: approx. 1.5 hours.
 
24.2
Monday
20:00

The Property | Screening and dialog with Dana Modan

A journey full of secrets and deceptions, which begins with real estate issues but actually devotes itself to matters of the heart, in Dana Modan’s first film as director, based on a graphic novel with family autobiographical elements, written and illustrated by her sister, Rutu Modan.



Regina and her granddaughter Mika embark on a journey to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II. 
But their quest quickly unravels. Regina unexpectedly decides to abandon the mission entirely, leaving Mika lost and confused. 
To complicate matters further, an irritating distant relative keeps appearing at every turn. Just as Mika finds herself falling for a charming tour guide, Regina seizes the opportunity to pursue her own hidden agenda: finding her long-lost love, from whom she was separated seventy years ago.

 

‘The Property’ blends the different and similar characteristics of the Modan sisters as creators, and echoes their previous works: on the one hand, the pull to an ironic gaze and to comic situations steeped in black humor, evident in the television series created by Dana (‘Love Hurts’, ‘Significant Other’, ‘Aviram Katz’), and on the other hand, a dreamy-melancholic atmosphere that characterizes Rutu’s stories and illustrations. Cinematographer Yaron Scharf does a good job of translating the visual perspective of the illustrator Modan into film, and also of capturing Warsaw in a way that blurs its past and its present into a uniform, theatrical time, which well serves the journey that the grandmother and granddaughter take down memory lane.” (Shani Litman, Haaretz)
 

StageTalk Following the screening, a conversation with the film director Dana Modan