2024-06-22 23:27:29
The Mohammed V Nationwide Theater in Rabat will host, on November 30 and December 1, the musical comedy “El Boustane Sepharadi” by Yitzhak Navon, introduced Thursday the overall director of the Nationwide Theater of Israel “Habima”, Noam Semel.
That is the primary time that this musical has been offered in an Arab-Muslim nation, Mr. Semel stated throughout a press convention, describing its presentation in Morocco as a “historic occasion”.
It’s one in every of Israel’s most well-known theatrical works which depicts the lifetime of a Sephardic Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem firstly of the twentieth century, he stated, stressing that its presentation in Morocco is “the manifestation of a dream that I’ve at all times needed to convey collectively Arab and Jewish cultures by means of the presentation of my group of theatrical works in Arab-Muslim international locations”.
Twenty actors, singers and dancers from the “Habima” group, together with famend artists, will come to Morocco to current this musical, accompanied by a big media group from Israel. This occasion “will represent a brand new manifestation of the coexistence of Jewish and Arab cultures” and “the start of an necessary theatrical change between the 2 international locations,” continued Mr. Semel.
He confused, on this sense, that “in Israel, we love Moroccan tradition”, noting that Israelis of Moroccan origin signify a big proportion of the inhabitants of this nation and take part strongly within the subject of artwork, tradition and cinema.
The presentation of the play “El Boustane Sepharadi” in Rabat was organized on the initiative of the affiliation “Mates of Moroccan Judaism”, the Ministry of Youth, Tradition and Communication and the Israeli Ministry of Regional cooperation, in cooperation with the Israeli liaison workplace in Rabat.
Directed by Tzedi Tzarfati and carried out by actors Tal Mousseri, Roni Daloumi and Hanny Nahmias, this piece relies on the melodies of the “Anthology of the Judeo-Spanish Liturgy” and the “E-book of Romances” by Yitzhak Levy.
The play, continues the identical supply, describes the household and social ties on this neighborhood by drawing with relish on the favored knowledge which guides the each day lifetime of characters taken from the folklore of this group and impressed by the Moroccan and Sephardic roots of the creator. The present can also be the invocation of those songs of affection, sorrow and pleasure, its romances which have transcended time and that are nonetheless sung in the present day, with emotion and nostalgia.
Based in 1917 in Moscow by Nachum Zemach, Habima moved to Tel Aviv in 1931, and has been formally thought of Israel’s nationwide theater since 1958, the yr its troupe acquired the Israel Theater Prize. In the present day, it has 80 actors, 120 workers, 12 new performs produced and 1,500 performances yearly.
Fifth president of the State of Israel, the creator of this play, Yitzhak Navon (1921-2015), is a Moroccan Sephardic Jew.
2024-06-22 23:27:29