A Life Made of Wood 7.4
The Organizers
Khashabi Theater مسرح خشبة
In "A Life Made of Wood" we look at the continuous attempt to satisfy within a personal and imaginary social framework. We use the deconstruction of the presented characters and track their choices and circumstances, in order to ask about the extent of the freedom of the personal decision of the human being, and the woman in particular.
On stage, the actress performs inside a closed space that is determined by a pre-planned movement, trying to perform her work in the best way, and to fully commit to the laws of the theatrical game. We place the act of trying to please in a performative laboratory through which we ask: If frames are an essential part of our identities and our need to belong - are they breakable? Is accepting the frameworks and submitting to them and surrender, or is there a possible and achievable space between the complete acceptance of the frameworks and the revolution against them?
About Organizer
Khashabi is an independent Palestinain theatre in the city of Haifa. It was founded in 2011 as the artists’ collective Khashabe Ensemble. In 2015 the group achieved a physical space in the Wadi Salib neighborhood that was emptied from the majority of its original inhabitants 1948. Khashabi works towards a Palestinian society that freely practices art and creativity as a natural right, and strives to renew its cultural identity by placing independent culture front and centre, and provides a space for artists to freely experiment, create, research and perform alternative forms of theatre and art, and space where social, political and artistic taboos can be challenged, creating an invigorating creative environment based on cooperation and mutual support.
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