Documentary theater
After becoming a mother, the artist Galia Einey recorded life for two years. She recorded everything: the changing relationship and the growing child, the music at bedtime, words said in living room conversations, and words left unspoken in the silences.
She pressed record, stop, and record again, as an act of reaching out to life from within her own personal earthquake. And then the war seeped into the soundtrack, and “Imagine” started to play at home on repeat. The son Avner thinks he’s John Lenon and the house fills up with words and questions.The parents Galia and Daniel look for answers, but outside there are howls of jackals, thunders, and the Iron Dome.
When is a good time to tell a child that people are so hurtful to each other?
Many hours of recordings became the show’s raw material, which Galia wittily and touchingly edited into a poignant, painful, and poetic personal journey. Together with her partner Daniel Gamlieli – a musician, poet, and stage technician, and surrounded by a talented artistic team, they extend a secure hand towards the distant horizon revealed from the sofa.
Galia Einey, b. 1985, is a Jerusalem-based multidisciplinary artist and artistic director. She graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem and Musrara’s program for Advanced Studies in Experimental Music and Sound Art. Einey received the Eric Siday Scholarship from the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music, an excellence scholarship from the Jerusalem Foundation, and the Jerusalem Mayor excellence award.
Please note: The show includes the sound of a recorded rocket siren
