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An original production directed by Adina Tal, featuring the world’s first and only ensemble of 11 deaf-blind actors, takes the audience on a journey into their inner world through the realms of darkness, silence and… bread.
The performance revolves around the timeline of kneading, leavening and baking dough on stage, creating an encounter between the actors and the audience. Throughout, the actors lead the viewers to magical moments between fantasy and reality, recreating memories together, fulfilling forgotten dreams and bringing us, the viewers, back to the basics – to bread, to the longing for home.
During the performance, the audience hears drumbeats that signal a scene change to the actors. Most of the theater’s actors do not see the raised hand or hear the sound of the drum, but they still respond to the cue. In a slow and intricate process, the actors learned to feel the vibrations produced by the drum even from a distance, thus finding another means of communication and a way to integrate the human drama that is so unique to the group with the theatrical drama.
Concept and Direction Adina Tal | Set Design Eithan Ronel | Set Execution Meir Ben-Hakon, Alon Levi | Costume Design Dafna Grossman | Original Music Amnon Baaham | Lighting Design Uri Rubinstein | Props Liron Koren | “Dancing Close” Lyrics, Music and Performance by Zvi Tal | “Italian Market” (Based on a Neapolitan folk song) Performed by Zvi Tal
A simple and universal message, powerfully transmitted from the stage.
The New York Times
This is the test of the theater itself; the way in which a good work can communicate beyond the boundaries of darkness and silence.
The Guardian
Heartbreaking, poignant, yet told without self-pity and filled with “transcendental" moments as they dance, laugh and reach out to us.
The Press, Jonathan Lovett
Using touch, mime, sign language and music they create a cabaret-style show which is as funny as it is thought-provoking.
Sky news , Lucy McDonald
This is a collection of memories, hopes and longings that nourish the human spirit. Their stories simply touch us all.
Times, Sam Marlowe
Not by Bread alone” is an utter triumph.
The JC , John Nathan
Not by Bread Alone is an exceptional theatrical event.
The Independent , Kate Basset
They’re blind, deaf-and brilliant…certainly one of the most remarkable, most humbling and most profoundly affecting theatrical experiences you will ever have.
The Mail on Sunday, Georgina Brown
Igor Osherov and Marc Yarosky are slapstick clowns , Bat Sheva Revansery delivers a lovely vignette…”Not By Bread Alone” is also a unique affirmation of our capacity to connect with each other in the darkest most silent places.
Metro
This is not just a theatrical performance, but also a spiritual experience that broadens the mind.<br />
TimeOut , Jane Edwards
The group’s precision ,timing and rhythm is a wonder to behold, “Not By Bread Alone” is an emotional tribute to the human spirit.
Kultureflash
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