Um Muhamad - Smadar Yaaron



   

Event: Um Muhamad - Smadar Yaaron
Date: 09-Dec-2011
Time: 21:30 - 22:20
Location: Theater Kikker | Utrecht

Um Muhamad

Concept: Smadar Yaaron and Moni Yosef

Creation: Smadar Yaaron 


In a virtual, interactive encounter between an old Jewish/Israeli woman and an old Palestinian woman, both tell about the time in their lives when they were young girls and were forced to become refugees- one in Europe in the 1940’s, the other during the Nakba in 1948. The Jewish woman, invites the public are into her living room (the theater) while the Palestinian woman is being interviewed on screen. The hostess interacts with and responds to the screen image and her guests at the same time, while the life stories of the two old women gradually blend into each other.

Smadar Yaaron is one of the founders, together with with David Maayan of the Acco Theater Center (ATC). The ATC in Acco, Israel, forges strong alliances between Arab and Jewish artists, and has created a number of both controversial and successful productions which have toured in many countries.
Smadar has directed and performed in most of the theater’s most prominent productions including Wishuponastar which was shown in the 2007 Dancing on the Edge Festival. She has won a number of prestigious awards (most recently the 2010 Landau Arts Prize) in both Europe and Israel.

Performed by Smadar Yaaron, with the film presence of Hamdi Musa (Um Muhamad) .
Um Mohamad is produced by the Acco Theater Center


After talk with the artists moderated by Dennis Meyer (Het Lab)