The Constant Mourner
You will yet find out what alone is! Now you are stunned, something inside you still protests: ‘How can this be?! How can it?’ But the surprise shall pass, and it’s strange how quickly facts are established. The bitter news of yesterday becomes a part of your life, and you will live with it — you and it, a man and his hump. The pain will grow dull, the sharp point will grow blunt, your life will become a cold ember, and only from time to time, in the soul’s wicked game, shall the certainty unravel, and you will once again be scorched by the pain of initial surprise, a pain whose force knows no boundaries, and
you will scream: ‘He is dead! He is dead! He…’
Translated by: Jessica Cohen and Evan Fallenberg
Premiere:
2020
Directed by:
Ari Folman
Theatre:
The Cameri Theatre
Stage design: David Polonsky
Costume design and artistic consultant: Orna Smoragonsky
Choreography: Andrea Constanzo Martini
Video: Yoav Cohen
Light: Nadav Barnea
Musical production: Efrat Ben-Tzur and Omer Hershman
Original music and singing: Efrat Ben-Tzur
Participants: Morris Cohen, Yoav Levi, Maya Landsman, David Shaul, Eran Mor, Tal Weiss, Shoham Sheiner, David Bilenka, Yossi Segal, Uri Ravitz, Eran Sar'el, Yossi Kantz.
Dancers: Leer Katz, Or Ashkenazi, Tamar Henig, Tamar Rosenzweig, Shai Kocoi, Noam Ilan.
Musicians: Omer Hershman, Einav Jackson Cohen, Giori Politi