Some readers may remember the function of an independent culture behind the Iron Curtain; I do not mean church reciting poesy or singing in private dwellings of “forbidden songs”. I mean, the context in which the world's top works of literature took on double conspiratorial meaning: in the 3rd part Grandpas Newsiltsov was naturally a historical and contemporary reflection of the Russian/Soviet “republication” in Poland.
Everything depends on the context, at least at Harvard. Encouraging blacks to lynching in the South is only erstwhile words become deeds. It takes "strange fruits", quoting Billie Holiday, to admit the words of intimidation and blaming Diaspora for actions of another state for attacking hordes of Jihad devotees and Sharia law advocates in Europe to "become an act". ErgoWe gotta break into another synagogue and shoot people. First, in Israel, kill the last Jew. And then go after Diaspora. In times where I consider Tel Aviv to be safer than London, the world, as in Elsinor, seems to have “come out of orbit.”
Anti-Semitic murderous aggression after October 7 is nothing new. With media focus on the suffering of residents, who even remembers the fresh firing of a congregation in a synagogue in Pittsburgh or taking hostages praying in Coleyville, Texas? Who remembers killed children in judaic schools in Toulouse and Monauban? A Synagogue shooting in Halle, Yom Kippur,? Attack on visitors of the judaic Museum in Brussels? Attack on the synagogue in Gotteborg? Molotov cocktails that flew to the synagogue in Izmir? Shooting people praying in Pesach in a synagogue in Paway, California? Murdered people in a kosher store in Grenville, fresh Jersey? The breeding of Chanuki celebrities in Monsey, fresh York? The execution of young Jews at Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin? A grenade exploded in a judaic store in Sarcelles? The execution of judaic hostages at Porte de Vincennes, Paris? Attack on the cultural centre in Krudtønden In Denmark? Killing members of the judaic Cultural Center in Nice? Mord of Participators gathering at the judaic Cultural Center in Kansas?Who remembers? delight note that this list of unrepeated acts committed by the military detachment of the representatives of the “religion of peace” (this mantra orders us to repeat the British media) is only the fruit of the last decade preceding the Hamas attack on Israel. The attacks on empty buildings, desecration of temples and cemeteries, murders of individuals, and verbal and physical attacks on men moving around the cities of Europe were omitted from this list. This list besides includes murderous excesses in the mediate East, South America, and Africa. But the question remains: Who, in the context of 7 October, heard of the continuation of theseAnti-Semitic attacks by radicalised “new Europeans” long before the war broke out in October 2023? I'm not in English or French-speaking Western press. Ironically, there is no specified thing as Ha’aretz and Jerusalem Post.
Some readers may remember the function of an independent culture behind the Iron Curtain; I do not mean church reciting poesy or singing in private dwellings of “forbidden songs”. I mean, the context in which the world's top works of literature took on double conspiratorial meaning: in the 3rd part Grandpas Newsiltsov was naturally a historical and contemporary reflection of Russian/Soviet “republication” in Poland. Whenever Hamlet, in many interpretations, spoke the words “Denmark is simply a prison”, Denmark became Poland and Claudius became a russian usurper and murderer of the rightful ruler. Fortynbras appeared like a western liberator who would deal with the restaurant of the Polish state marked by both the execution of opposition (Hamlet), innocent victims of the government (Ophelia, Horace) and the criminals themselves (Claudius and, knowingly or not, Gertrude). Antigone, incapable to bury Polineikes' corpse, she became a mother, wife, sister of russian “missing” oppositionists murdered by the russian regime. Elektra in version Giraudoux, Arturo UiBrecht, King Ubu Jarry or Scarlet Island Bułhakowa was removed from the aphis due to the fact that they awakened “a combination that was unfavorable to current realities”. The crimes of usurpers specified as Macbeth and Richard III became crimes of power, and the fall of these characters prophesied the unimaginable end of communism. Opener Richard III"the winter of our discontent" was actually the analogy of Poland surviving under the regime's shoe. "The Sun of York" has never been able to replace this winter with a "radiant summer" of the regime.
A unique account of context and allusion was observed late through theatrical experiences in Tel Aviv. What is more interesting, I discovered this account in a retrospective form: these performances were in the repertoire of theatres long before October last year. They have not been “adjusted” to the country's mood: the common sense of mourning, loneliness and misunderstanding on the global stage, nor the exhaustion of the patience of the society flung by the Netanyahu government, the crypticity of the Hamasian “information” (or its full deficiency of it) about the destiny of those who are inactive trapped in the gas tunnels and the regular addition of names of subsequent reserve boys shot in Gaza's territory to the list of war casualties. possibly the indefinable theatre mystery is able to redirect the minds and emotions of the audience to areas of their subconscious? And just a new, tragic context of theatre experience gives the same text as its staging a new, tragic meaning. Even erstwhile a given play nominally deals with something another than the present events, I did not announcement in Israel that the context of the planet outside the auditorium was put in a boiler area in the brain of the viewer perceived in a reduced manner as an inept association of existing characters with, mourn God, lame, satanic, written, or festive “symbols”, with microports attached to his cheek. Just like in the theatre in Poland. Do Polish theatre artists truly value the ability to associate the minds of the audience so low that they must theatrically grunt, 3 times let the viewer see and make certain that he understands that the priest is evil, honesty is expressed through nakedness, and presenting historical plays in contemporary costumes means that a given play can happen here and now and not then and there? Wow! A grunt, a let-eye, and a peek at the viewer's back asking, “Did you realize what that was about?” Well, thank you very much.
Angels in America Tony Kushner at Cameri Theatre in its first pure form just acquired another depth of meaning through the post-October context. Knowing the large passages of the text by heart, abruptly I was struck by the richness of the meaning of this play, which I thought I was watching for the first time. At least thanks to Claudine Gay, I know that “everything depends on the context.” In Kushner's play, viewed in the context of Israel after 7 October, I was peculiarly struck by the silent consent of the indifferent planet to the extinction of a peculiar number left to itself with an insurmountable virus. A virus that affects this only despised minority, so why bother with it at all. I gnaw to you now, let go of my eye and make certain that you realize that the undefeated virus is Jihad, the indifference of the planet is, for example, the attitude of the United Nations or the Red Cross towards the murdered on 7 October in an unimaginably gruesome way of mothers, fathers and their children. I besides presume that you realize what Jews associate with smoking children in furnaces. On stage, dripping and splint in his machinations, Roy Cohn is like Bibi's all-inclusive: only the news of his “disease” would not come to light and would not diminish his function in manipulating the government and society. Symbolically, in the first Kushner, the relation between the central lovers of Prior and Louis is in itself an expression of the dilemma “who came here first”, who is from here and who is “influent”, who has the nobleness of the autochthon, and who is simply a two-generation immigrant polytour pretending to be a “real American”. I grunt and presume that you realize what this dilemma may mean in Israel today. Prior, as the name itself indicates, is of the household of the first of the first English to scope the ship Mayflower to Cape Cod in 1620. The first, first, on land that was first the Plymouth Colony, and in time became America. But before the Plymouth Colony, this land existed and was inhabited. We skip that by what? Hypocrisy coupled with car illusion? With ignorance? Mytomanic? And it is Prior who is infected with AIDS, and his death is the forerunner of the alleged 700,000 dead in the United States alone carrying the virus. But who cared (or even now) about the death of AIDS victims? We have a classical victim blame:"They asked for it themselves," "There was no sleeping left and right," "God has yet punished them." As if polygamy, sexualisation and the sense of unlimited moral freedom were the domain of a peculiar sexual minority, not part of human nature, without insight into whether practiced or not. Louis, in turn, is the grandson of emigrants coming from east Europe after a series of tsarist pogroms. Grandparents talk with a Slavic-yiddisch accent, perceive to the local rabbi and effort to fulfill as many mitzvahs, or good works from the 613 commandments of the Torah as possible. Louis is simply a 100 percent American, atheist, and adversary of the family's shtetl balas of the past, which forces him to keep elements of the Ashkenazi lifestyle in modern America. Louis is not an alien, an immigrant, a visitor. It is and it is not. Religion, an ethical school, and unquestionable respect for the law in which Prior grew, were born out of 4 1000 - year - old Judaism. So who's the autochthon? Who owns this land? Who are Prior and Louis to the character Belize, a descendant of British slaves brought to America? What is Mormonism in this comparative autochtonism, a religion formed by Joseph Smith after uncovering mysterious books in 1830 and confusing Christianity with prophetic thoughts derived from the book revealed to Smith?
In a climate in which the historical reality of Israel must actually explain itself; in a country that rationally points to the world's deafness at the 7th-century conquests of the mediate East and North Africa by muslim Arabs; in a state that skeptically approaches the muslim concept of holiness Jerusalem based on Muhammad's pre-agonal night flight, the question of who's an autochthon and who's an emigrant fires emotions from the far left to the far right. Whose religion, then, is the Neophite equivalent found in the book of Mormon in 1830? Is the Mayflower English ship full of Puritans the beginning of statehood, the imposition of spiritual morality on the seemingly discovered “New World” at Plymouth stone in 1620? Or was he the escape of a number from persecutions in Europe? And who are the title angels in America?
Visually, the ambiguity of Eran Atzmon's setography added another dimension to Kushner's mysterious art: the descending angel appeared sometimes as a Christian winged bearer of good news, and sometimes as a Starobic Tachanic "first reflections of the heat of God's life." A fire, so not death. The confusion of iconography of Christianity and Judaism is, after all,another dimension of Israeliness, especially in Jerusalem.
The combination of death and the saving of 1 life, as if it were the full planet and the curse of at least 3 1000 years of a planet wishing to execution all Jews (so far unsuccessfully) fill the psyche of all Israelis. Now more straight than always since Shoah. Just outside the Israeli Opera there is an installation from the close Tel-Aviv Museum of Art: a sabbath table for 200 seats, around which are suspended photographs of the killed and kidnapped. They look like household portraits of happy and vibrant people. This grief is the grief of the nation. They're not walking around in front of Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires alone mothers of the victims of the regime. Everyone comes down here. And it shares the same fate, as the same fate, with different consequences, was shared by European Jews during the Holocaust. Children's chairs are besides set at this Sabbath table. And who in UNICEF or the Red Cross cares about the violated girls or newborns abducted into tunnels by Hamas? In Israel, you have no sense that anyone, apart from Diaspora, understands this pain, which, both now and from generations of memorylessness, has been eating into judaic hearts.
Therefore, Richard III In the different Gesher Theatre in Jaffa, what else can the underlings of Edward IV's children's throats be associated with today? The monologues of queens Elizabeth and Margaret, pronounced by fallen erstwhile queens, are actually a long list of barbarians murdered by human evil members of the immediate family. What else can they associate with now? In the mouth of older actresses these words sound like disbelief of Israeli grandmothers who managed to last the Holocaust to first lose their boy in the war of Yom Kippur and then their grandson in Gaza. Who will realize their pain and their belief in the imperatives of strong Israel? possibly you request to spend a fewer years in hiding under the floor? Or with a shaved head, in a stinking feces and a stripe's death look into the crematory smoke with which your closest and dearest loved ones vanish in the grey sky?
Why besides wonder that on the evening of Valentine's Day the Israeli Opera presented Requiem Verdi? The spring is coming on the calendar, but in the hearts of all around it it is simply a day and night to disagree with “the winter of our disfavor.”
