Of all the troubles the Corona plague has inflicted on us in the last two years, it seems that at least one good thing has come out of it. This is “The Hotel”, the play with which the proven talent of the actress Rinat Yona-Glico picked up the first prize at the Toronto Theater, the only play festival that ended last night in Jaffa and for her amounts to ten thousand NIS, when she intends to share it with her co-creators. Former player Nissim Azikri and is a donation from the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation.
This play, different from all the plays staged this time at the 31st Teatronetto, is a clear fruit of the Corona. Yona-Gliko, a veteran actress, but not yet known to the general public, is celebrating her specialization recently in a show with masks, perhaps as a replacement for the actors and actresses with whom she has long since performed. “With the masks I have control over what happens on stage and without partners by my side they change me in the blink of an eye and if you ask if they are more comfortable to collaborate with than human actors, I will reply that there is something in that.”
Before we enter her “hotel”, the happy winner says that this is her second performance at the Teatronto. Eleven years ago, she did so in the play “Alliance between Differences,” written and directed by Nano Saturn. Since then, she has been running “Life in a Mask,” a show from which she slipped directly into the charm of “The Hotel,” a show that is entirely drawn from reality.
“When the corona broke out, we found myself, my partner Shlomi, our two daughters and our dog, living for a year in a closed and abandoned hotel, that our friend, the hotel manager, was looking for someone to launch there until the situation became clear. The offer, what’s more, the hotel is close to our permanent home. “
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post Scriptum. This is the “Peace” boutique hotel, opposite the “Hilton” and next to the British Embassy, which no one passed on Hayarkon Street and did not notice. “It was our home for a year,” she says. “50 rooms, sea view, quiet and also a lot of adventure. All kinds of guys came and asked if the hotel was open, when some were sucked into it from the suffocation of the closure. We will present the stories about that later, when the current show was just the opening shot.”
“We chose to give the performance award here to an actress who juggles a wide variety of characters with the help of a virtuoso game with and without masks – and leads the audience into the depths of a funny and exciting personal and family story,” the award judges concluded.
In fact, but as a step was between Jonah-Gliko and missing the current celebration. “I was not sure whether to return and attend the festival,” she admits. “The one who spurred me not to give up the opportunity was Daniela Michaeli, from the festival’s management and in the distant past one of the first winners. So join the playwright Lior Galiciano and director Mickey Mevorach. Greenspan, the expert in the field. “
47 years old, Yona-Gliko, who was born and raised in Rishon Lezion and lives in Tel Aviv. She is a graduate of acting studies at the Kibbutzim Seminary and has played for years at the Be’er Sheva Theater, Ruth Kenner’s Theater Group and other stages without becoming famous. She said she became acquainted with the subject of masks at random, when actress Nelly Amar, from her acting teacher, offered to replace her in her solo show. “There I became addicted to masks,” says the new winner, who she says “I have already performed a thousand times with the show ‘Life in a Mask.’
“A thousand times” – until now you are anonymous!
“That’s right. I hope now that will change.”
Of course, thanks to Corona.