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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
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