The Jerusalem Post - October 2, 2007
Acre Theater festival reviews
By HELEN KAYE
Be-Longing
Be-Longing, a video-installation and performance piece by Sharon Paz, shows Israel's fractured history via four members of the same family. They live in different time-lines and in four discrete areas in an old house - the audience sits on all four sides and is invited to move around.
The family's privacy/territory is breached by an archeologist whose aim is research and whose dig lies precisely beneath the table where the family eats.
Loss in its deepest and broadest sense pervades the piece and its cumulative effect is near shattering. There is little speech, and the actors themselves seem hardly more than animate props.
Events unfold in images: bubblegum stuck to a wall, a basketball out of its context, a pair of old army boots, a jealously guarded old rug. There are lags, there is unnecessary repetition, but overall Be-Longing works. |
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