Exhausted by the attempt to live his life, lonesome and naked, he falls asleep under a tree, among leftovers and trash that had been emitted by the soul itself. In this lost paradise, he may turn out to be the first man or the last man…
Without any justification that could be reconciled with sound logic, they were the only ones left after a war. A girl, a woman, a broken magician, and one man. In the new world, nonsense and heartbreak constitute the narrative that provides the context for the characters’ journey toward self fulfillment. Generic recollections from their former life, pretend pregnancy photographs, a smile stuck in a crossroad, the mermaid, a ride in a helicopter that did not bother to land, and skydiving a bit too close to the ground: these will serve as the first and last test case of its kind for the study of behavioral sciences in the new era. Pecan Park is a visual theater production, wherein the dark and the ridiculous, the dreamlike, and the nightmarish live undisturbed, side by side. Shani Shabtai, Adi Kahana and Bat El Dotan created this work and perform it with much virtuosity. Together, Ofer Laufer’s fascinating stage-lighting design and Amir Meir’s poetic-pathological sound design create a cruel and companionate psychedelic world.
