In her debut creation at HaZira Theatre, artist Jackie Pearl presents “Georgia Buzz”, a theatrical-visual journey moving between myth and personal memory, between a towering metal crane and a world of feathers, between the charms of entertainment and the rituals of dismemberment.
At its center lies a charged relationship between father and daughter, appearing through the figures of both mythological and personal fathers: Daedalus, Abraham, and King Minos, alongside the image of the artist’s own father.
The work weaves a language of puppets, objects, video, and visual theatre to explore the thin boundary between love and harm, between wonder and cruelty. Images of animals, magicians, and machines break apart and reassemble to form a world saturated with longing, terror, and grace.
It is a vision in which what breaks is not repaired, but instead gives birth to new, surprising and painful creatures. Among them, a single bird: delicate, elusive, perhaps capable of carrying upon its wings the story of redemption.
Jackie Pearl is a multidisciplinary creator and director of visual theatre and puppetry for adults. She is a graduate of the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jewish Culture, the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, and the MFA program at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, which she completed with distinction.
Most recently, she received an award for creating and directing the visual language and puppetry in Everything Stays Alive, which premiered at the Acco Festival, co-created with Yarden Gilboa and Dana Kayla.
Her works explore personal and collective themes through poetic, historical, and mythological means, and have been presented on numerous stages in Israel and abroad. Among them are Paper Heart Pearl, which won the Golden Hedgehog Award for stage language, and Ishtalut, which received the Emil Zola Human Rights Chair Award. Both were showcased at the International Exposure of Israeli Theatre and supported by the Rabinovich Foundation and the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & the Arts.
Show duration: About 60 minutes.
