Beit Avi Chai presents "Laughing Despite it All: Jewish Holocaust Humor."
This evening of thought-provoking theatre, music, and animation is all about coping with the Holocaust through the arts.
For International Holocaust Day, we stop to examine whether laughter is a therapeutic mechanism to cope with the trauma of the Holocaust or an expression of our distance from it, and whether the time that has gone by allows us to process the tragedy with contemporary human devices.
Program:
7 PM: Reception with live music and the screening of animation clips
7:30 PM: Gesher Theater's Five Kilograms of Sugar play
Follow-up discussion after the play led by author Sara Blau
With:
Carlo Strenger, psychologist
Lior Alperovich, historian and Holocaust scholar
Dedi Baron, director of Post-Trauma, Habima Theatre
Gur Koren, playwright, Five Kilograms of Sugar, Gesher Theatre
10 PM: The Slaughtering the Cow ensemble in a special satiric show
Artistic direction: Sarit Fuchs, theatre scholar and critic
The event will take place at the Masie House Theater Center, 18 Mesilat Yesharim St., in the center of town.
Thursday, January 26, 7 PM
Admission for the play: NIS 30; for the Slaughtering the Cow show: NIS 30; NIS 50 for both
Admission free for the discussion following the play, beginning around 9 PM
This is a Hebrew-language only event.
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