GYMNASTICS (2004)
Maya Dunietz and Michal Oppenheim-Landau in Gymnastics photo: Alona Rodeh |
Gymnastics is an indirect
response to Samuel Beckett's play QUAD
(1980). The formalistic play provides the setting for an attempt of communication
between people in a controlled environment. This produces an
additional quest, which examines the independence of contemporary
theatrical language, an exploration of nowadays abstraction of theater.
The
audience is presented with simple situational guidelines, and is
invited to fill in the blanks as they please. The piece offers a view
at hardly distinguishable hues and inquires whether a grey,
self-reflecting non-virtuous creation can find a place in the
colorful environment of today's emotive visual public sphere.
With:
Maya Dunietz, Amit Hadari/Moran Abergil, Noam Inbar, Osnat Kelner, Asaf Korman, Michal
Oppenheim, Na'ama Schendar/Rachel Zinder, Eyal Zusman.
Featuring
music by: Robert Wyatt, Wes
Montgomery, The Barry Sisters,
Norbert
Schultze / Hans Leip, Maya Dunietz.
Costumes:
Alona Rodeh
Set
and Lighting: Ariel Efraim
Ashbel
'Gymnastics'
premiered at the School of Visual Theater, Jerusalem in May 2004 and later that year was presented in Tel Aviv's Tmuna Theater and Suzanne Dellal Center.
And this duet was the prologue for that piece. I like it very much still. It features the lovely Osnat Kelner and a beardless, glassless, young looking me: