Two lost survivors meet in the intimate performance of Jaracz Theatre in Łódź. It's 1948. The war nightmare just ended. Anna, a German female who wants to learn Hebrew, goes to a tiny cellar where the old Rabbi Chaim lives.
Not only is the teacher untrustworthy, but he surely does not want to take on the task. At first, he reacts aggressively to a young woman, but in time, Hebrew teaching becomes a mission for him. Both, despite the differences between them, are getting closer and closer to each other.
Chaim is simply a bitter teacher who lost his full household during the war. He survived the darkness of the Holocaust, but lost religion in God and men. Anna is simply a female who had a hard childhood, a brutal father, and during the war she worked in the camp as an administrative individual of the torturers. Revealing their own secrets will combine these 2 into a strange, ephemeral friendship, full of wounds and pain.
It's a spectacle about how war and its horrors don't end with the end of fighting. erstwhile tanks are silent, the war continues in people who are spiritually damaged. War traumas have been in drama heroes for years like splinters.
Ron Elisha created multidimensional art. While the rabbi explains to Annie that being judaic is eternal suffering, the Jews in Palestine supply Palestinians with the taste of warfire. With the mouths of the heroes, Elijah seems to ask questions about whether it is possible to preserve humanity during the war (every war). It's about the boundaries of good and evil. Thanks to these hard and non-obvious questions, art becomes completely contemporary and current.
The viewer has a chance to learn the secrets of the Hebrew alphabet and realize the deep symbolism of any letter that can mean much more than the emblematic sense assigned to it.
It's a travel story, too. So appropriate to the judaic fate. On the 1 hand, it is simply a journey through doctrine and spirituality, and on the another hand, it is known that Anna is in this basement of Chaim only for a minute that she escapes. judaic destiny is the destiny of travelers, exiles, refugees without land. The destiny of a nation that seems to be everywhere at home and nowhere at the same time.
Recently we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Many times on this occasion, Marian Turski's words were quoted about the fact that Auschwitz did not come out of nowhere. In the 1930 ’ s, all informing lights were on fire in Germany, but this signal was ignored.
When we see Elon Musk wave his hand first in a fascist way, and then supports the extreme, anti-Polish and anti-European right hand in Germany, it is worth watching not only the performance on the small phase of the Jaracz Theatre, but besides to consider the questions that the artist and the artist of the show ask us.
