(The clips are part of the footage we filmed as web PR, rehearsal try out, and some clips filmed on location in Israel. Some of the material will be shown on the show’s video wall.)

Bertolt Brecht declared that his realist theatre is anti-dramatic, claiming it is epic instead. He aimed to assert the theatre’s continued relevance as a politicized tool. Bercht’s uncompromising conception of realism spelled out that as reality changes, realism must change with it.

 

Since the problem doesn’t exist, you mustn’t talk about it. Because if you talk about it, it means the problem exists, and therefore you are guilty of creating the problem. And if the problem doesn’t exist, and you dare to talk about a non-existent problem, we will silence you, eliminate you, ensure you are fired, so that people learn not to talk about non-existent problems.

• If We Must Die/ CLAUDE MCKAY
  If we must die, let it not be like hogs
  Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
  While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
  Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
  If we must die, O let us nobly die,
  So that our precious blood may not be shed
  In vain; then even the monsters we defy
  Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
  O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
  Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
  And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
  What though before us lies the open grave?
  Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
  Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

(Rehearsals tryouts)

When you hummer everything looks like a nail