With unclean feet
With chafed heels
With a long, sinewy Achilles
We stomp and tread
Crushing tomatoes for Shabbat’s Jachnun
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Guidance: Yonatan Levy, Nava Frenkel / Performers: أثير Atheer, Gabriela Hazon, Yael Weiss, Leore Hanna Fisch, Maayan Labinger, Nitzan Barak, Noam Kasman, Shahar Or, Noa Halfi / Music by Harel Phlavius Keshet / Lighting design: Ziv Bar David Varon / Costume design: Nitzan Barak and Yael Ofer / Textual Advisor: Maya Moksha Kashani / Producer: أثير Atheer
I would like to thank the School of Visual Theatre and everyone in and around it, which with one can be foolish and grow serious, see and be seen, listen and find a voice, and be reminded of our freedom.
To my class for their true friendship, to the Finale consultants Hila and Guy who asked how things were going, to the school’s administrators and management, Maya, Sigal, Meravi and Tsuf, to the magical technical team, Ihab, Gidon, Martin and Nir, to Amit Mann barefoot on the balcony with a cup of herbal tea, to Ruth and Meirav who helped me discover my voice, and to all the teachers who gave with such generosity.
A special thanks to Gabriela and Shahar, for being a part of the process, and also to Tamar Binyamini and Tal Yahas, for their wisdom and sensitivity.
The work contains nudity.