Ahh.. the queit morning...
I had so much fun yesterday night.
I met Yael at the University and after a while also met Sagiv.
Yael had gone to manage a theatre show that she has invited us to and we spent some time just eating "supper".
Then we went to the theatre in the Arts building at the university and I saw a terrific play that kept me smiling all the way through and feeling terrific.
It was such an experience.
It was a play produced entirly by students of the Art of Theatre in the university and they were all third year student, except two actors who were first year, but they only got to stand there and not say a word.
Anyway, the place was a dark room. There was no "stage", the audiance sat on one side of the room and the play took place just in front of us.
There were maybe twenty characters and they were all doing stuff at the same time and you couldn't really catch it all together since if you look one place, you miss the action in another place. That really gave me a feeling of actually being there with them in the play, the fact that I was on the same level with them and that they were all around doing stuff.
Several times one of the actresses would look me strait in the eyes and it was so nerving, she would be all in character and I had no idea what to do. It felt as if the character is staring at me, and since all the characters were mental health patients, it was kind of eerie...
But I was so impressed by them, they made me feel so good just by being there and watching them, not even fully paying attention to what the show is all about since it was something about the french revolution and napoleon and the marquiz the sad and mr. mara and all. I wasn't so much interested in the story itself, but I still had the time of my life.
Yeal is the manager of the play so she told me and Sagiv what are the best places to sit in and boy she knew what she was talking about. Normally the best seats are the one you can clearly see everything from, but this time, it was more than just that.
The play is Mara/Sad by PETER WEISS translated to Hebrew and it is about the marquiz de sad who is in a mental hospital and there he wrote a special play for all the other patient to produce and act in, so in essence, we, the audience are actually the audience of the play in the mental health hospital.
It begins by the manager of the hospital comming out and thanking us all for comming to see the play that the patients produced and he and his wife and little daughter also sit in the audience and they sat right next to me!
So now the play (within the play) begins and Mr. Sad is like the director and the play is about someone in the hospital and all the patients do their acting but they are all in the white cloths of the hospital and there are doctors there that supervise and all (they are the fist year student, they just stand there and occasionally grab a patient and take him away).
So it turns out the play (within the play) is kind of against the rich people or something and the patron who sat next to me kind of gets upset by that and every time stops the play and tells mr. sad it can't go on like that and the mental patienst also start saying rude words or start getting crazy and he again tells Sad to control his play!
And through the play the patron kind of talked to me and told me stuff and even gave me his goggles to see closer and gave me some snacks from his own table :D
And his little girl occasionally did stuff and her parents were mad at her, it was so weird, it felt like being there in the mental institution :D
which was GREAT!
I don't know, I don't think I can describe exactly how it was and what made me so thrilled and happy to have been there and experience it, but it was the best time I have had for really a very very very VERY long time.
Me like, me very very like.
I want to go back and hug each and every one of the actors and actress.
Mishel.
I met Yael at the University and after a while also met Sagiv.
Yael had gone to manage a theatre show that she has invited us to and we spent some time just eating "supper".
Then we went to the theatre in the Arts building at the university and I saw a terrific play that kept me smiling all the way through and feeling terrific.
It was such an experience.
It was a play produced entirly by students of the Art of Theatre in the university and they were all third year student, except two actors who were first year, but they only got to stand there and not say a word.
Anyway, the place was a dark room. There was no "stage", the audiance sat on one side of the room and the play took place just in front of us.
There were maybe twenty characters and they were all doing stuff at the same time and you couldn't really catch it all together since if you look one place, you miss the action in another place. That really gave me a feeling of actually being there with them in the play, the fact that I was on the same level with them and that they were all around doing stuff.
Several times one of the actresses would look me strait in the eyes and it was so nerving, she would be all in character and I had no idea what to do. It felt as if the character is staring at me, and since all the characters were mental health patients, it was kind of eerie...
But I was so impressed by them, they made me feel so good just by being there and watching them, not even fully paying attention to what the show is all about since it was something about the french revolution and napoleon and the marquiz the sad and mr. mara and all. I wasn't so much interested in the story itself, but I still had the time of my life.
Yeal is the manager of the play so she told me and Sagiv what are the best places to sit in and boy she knew what she was talking about. Normally the best seats are the one you can clearly see everything from, but this time, it was more than just that.
The play is Mara/Sad by PETER WEISS translated to Hebrew and it is about the marquiz de sad who is in a mental hospital and there he wrote a special play for all the other patient to produce and act in, so in essence, we, the audience are actually the audience of the play in the mental health hospital.
It begins by the manager of the hospital comming out and thanking us all for comming to see the play that the patients produced and he and his wife and little daughter also sit in the audience and they sat right next to me!
So now the play (within the play) begins and Mr. Sad is like the director and the play is about someone in the hospital and all the patients do their acting but they are all in the white cloths of the hospital and there are doctors there that supervise and all (they are the fist year student, they just stand there and occasionally grab a patient and take him away).
So it turns out the play (within the play) is kind of against the rich people or something and the patron who sat next to me kind of gets upset by that and every time stops the play and tells mr. sad it can't go on like that and the mental patienst also start saying rude words or start getting crazy and he again tells Sad to control his play!
And through the play the patron kind of talked to me and told me stuff and even gave me his goggles to see closer and gave me some snacks from his own table :D
And his little girl occasionally did stuff and her parents were mad at her, it was so weird, it felt like being there in the mental institution :D
which was GREAT!
I don't know, I don't think I can describe exactly how it was and what made me so thrilled and happy to have been there and experience it, but it was the best time I have had for really a very very very VERY long time.
Me like, me very very like.
I want to go back and hug each and every one of the actors and actress.
Mishel.