An old artist, lonely and silent at his old piano, in his old room, gets ready for an important meeting.
The meeting never takes place - the long awaited guests don’t show up - but it brings up to the surface of the old man's memory complex past relationships.
Three significant women in his life: his mother, his lover, and the puppeteer who manipulates him. The old man is aware-unaware of the latter's existence, but her presence penetrates his life and the life of the other two women. The emotional world of the puppeteer is transmitted to the puppets, and a moving intimate encounter occurs between the living, breathing body of the puppeteer and the dumb material the puppets are made of. |
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Maayan Resnick - Professional Background
Graduated The School Of Visual Theater: 2005
Studies at David Yelin College for BEd. in Art Integration in Education
Specializations: puppet design and manipulation, directing, sculpture and stage design.
Main works:
“Belly Puppet” - Marathon 2003 - The School Of Visual Theater. [view image]
“Sprite” - Marathon 2003 - The School Of Visual Theater, The International Puppet Festival Jerusalem 2003, street theater throughout Jerusalem. [view image]
“Yerma” - Marathon 2004 - The School Of Visual Theater, The International Puppet Festival Biayalistok, Poland 2004, The International Puppet Festival Berlin 2004, The International Puppet Festival Jerusalem 2004.
“Space Play” - Marathon 2004 - The School Of Visual Theater, The Israel Festival 2004. [view image]
"Three Desires and Silence" - a joint show with two other puppeteers, each performing a solo piece. 2006 [view image]
"Platero and I" - a show based on Ramon Jimenes book, with Castelnuovo - Tedesco's music. A piece for an actor-narrator, a guitar player, and puppets. Kfar Blum Music Festival. 2006 [view image]
“Alice in Wonderland” - an improvisation piece, combining music, video art and puppets. [view image]
Devising puppets for a children's play "The Princess and the Hedgehog" 2007. [video] [view image]
“Overflow” - The International Puppet Festival Jerusalem 2007.
Awards:
The America-Israel Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2004
The Jerusalem Foundation Award for Art 2004
The America-Israel Foundation Award for Directing 2005
Reviews:
The Nation Weblog, Dec. 2007
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Further information:
“When I first encountered the writings of Samuel Becket, I wondered how a character could be real when it lacked characterization, identity or a biography. How can one deal with solitude, fear, pain, from an alienated, impersonal point of departure? In visual theater, as in contemporary direction of puppetry, this is possible. It happens in what I call “the ceremony of gesture” – a private ceremony, safe within its own rules, in the discourse between the puppet and its puppeteer; a discourse that is made possible through attentiveness and a meticulous delineation of the character. Action is not the outcome of a psychological drive or will, but of a combination of the character’s nature and design, its mechanism. “Abstract realism”, an oxymoron, as it were.
Maayan casts her puppets out of rubber. Her choice of this yellowish, monochrome, restrained material discloses the nature of the discourse. Maayan enters the rehearsal space. She does not know what she is going to do. She sits down on the floor, leans against the wall. The puppet is curled up in her lap. Here begins the ceremony. The puppet of the old man stares, half wondering, leaning on her arm. The puppeteer’s whole emotional world is transmitted to the puppet in a moment of silence, in her audible breathing. Absolutely true to detail, but the details are devoid of context. Like placing a mask on an empty, faceless head. Empty or full, embraced or abandoned, when consciousness touches the puppet, it is usually devoid of ego and filled with emotion.”
*Hadas Ophrat, Founder of The School for Visual Arts |
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Technical specifications:
Participants: 2 performers and 2 technicians
Stage size: minimum – depth 4m, width 6m
Stage requirements: black drops, piano, electric piano, sound and light system.
Size of audience: up to 100 people. Recommended for intimate venues. The show is for an adult audience.
Length of show: 50 min, no words.
Mount: 6 hrs.
Strike: 45 min.
Transport costs: 4 plane tickets from Israel + cargo.
Cargo: 1m*70cm*50cm box, 15 kg
Two performances a day are possible with a gap of at least 1 hour between them.
Lighting and sound requierments [PDF]
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Contact:
Hazira Interdisciplinary Theatre
Harechavim st. 4
P.O.BOX 8343
91082 Jerusalem
Israel
Phone: +972-2-6783378
Fax: +972-2-6782216
E-mail: prod@hazira.org.il
Maayan Resnick
maayanres@gmail.com |
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webpage by: Martimi photos by: Omri Shapira, Massimo Schuster, Gilad Nardi |
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