Third Generation
(Dritte Generation)
Directed by: Yael Ronen
Ensemble Habimah National Theatre of Israel (Tel Aviv)
& Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Berlin)
Country Israel/Palästina/Deutschland
Commissioned work for Theater der Welt 2008
First presentation/Work in progress
Yael Ronen, one of the most important and most provocative directors of Israel, is megaphone of the young, war-weary, fun-loving generation. She writes her pieces in teamwork with Israeli and Arab actors,who capture ludicrous scenes here side and far side of the wall with the video camera and wrest furious humour from the everyday madness. She forces the audience and the ensemble to take positions of the opponents, exposes propaganda, names conflicts and investigates similarities. With “Plonter”, Ronen’s approach was resoundingly successful in 2007. In “Third Generation”, she analyses the Gordian knot that determines the German, Palestinian and Israeli people. Starting point is the path of life of three families, vicarious for the history of the three nations, between Berlin and Jaffa from 1939 to 1949. They meet once again 60 years later, this time in the third generation. How do they handle memories, questions of guilt, rejection, victimhood and delinquent?
Supported by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Festival di Parma as well as Goethe-Institut
