DISCOVERING ELIJAH

The stage production presents a disintegrated reality, a reality made of fragments that have lost their normal contexts. It attempts to dismantle, and then reexamine, the particles constituting war: words, images, violent impulses, fear and its concealment, running, souls departing from the battlefield, the search of consolation. The investigation of events involves an investigation of the modes of representation of the local narrative of war and tales from the battlefield, to create a text that reaches past the surface to the naked scream beneath, to the depths of horror, to that place of intimacy between man and his own vulnerability, to the very thin line that separates life from death.

About the music:
Live music is performed with unconventional instruments which have been specially made for the production. String, wind and percussive instruments are played by currents of hot air heated by fire. The sound establishes order, determines fates, envelopes the show and carries it to hidden, non-verbal places. This is a mixture of sounds which becomes an inseparable part of the artist’s body.

Reasons given by the Akko Festival panel of judges for awarding this production the first prize:
S. Yizhar’s deep, complex prose is transformed in the hands of director Ruth Kanner into fascinating theater with its own unique, inspired theatrical language. Brilliant, meticulous and sensitive direction, devoted and concerned work of the actors, stage design, lighting and music all join together to make up a whole that imparts a penetrating, rending message.