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Tranquila

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Tranquila
Venue:
Baxter Main Theatre
Dates:
Mon 22 march; 20h00
Tue 23 march; 12h30 Tue 23 march; 20h30
Wed 24 march; 20h30

Duration: 60 min

ISRAEL
Conceived and directed by Avital Dvory with Yaron Goshen;Nimrod Eisenberg,Ronny Kalev’Boaz Shaul Avital Dvory

Hospitalized in a foreign country,a young woman is confined to her bed. She is very ill and hovers between life and bed. By using live acting,circus,puppetry,clowning and music,Tranquila takes the audience on the young woman’s journey to health,a journey that is turbulent,poetic ,sometimes sad and often funny,a journey that teaches us the unlimited possibilities granted by the human imagination and spirit,regardless of  the physical limitations. The young woman’s journey is rich with physical metaphors. Her world is filled with imaginary figures. She meets a knight,she dances with Death,she has dialogues with the moon. She uses the power of her subjective reality,her inner world, and triumphs.

Tranquila is a hymn to the ability of everyone to overcome life’s obstacles by inner strength and energy,by using one’s imagination, by keeping faith in oneself and especially by humor and basic optimism.

performed by The Avital  Dvory Physical Theatre from Israel, Tranquila is presented by  five performers -actors and actresses, medical clowns and puppeteers and circus artists.

No knowledge of the language spoken(combination of English,Spanish and Hebrew) is needed for understanding the performance.

The participation of Tranquila in Out The Box was made possible with the support of the Israeli Foreign Ministry

3 Responses to “Tranquila”

  1. Theo Erasmus says:
    March 24, 2010 at 3:58 am

    A beautiful, poignant, funny piece. Sublime and filled with lovely, transcendent moments. Very enjoyable.

  2. Gail Super says:
    March 25, 2010 at 3:30 am

    I loved it. Thanks so much! It did help to understand the Spanish dialogue though :-)

  3. Astrid Stark says:
    April 9, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    What a wacked-out peculiar piece!
    The actors babble away in Spanish and it’s this language barrier that frees up the performance for personal interpretation. The doctors that are trying to save a woman’s life wear baby pink mini dresses and white stockings and are just hysterical. At one point the woman’s legs turn into tree trunks with leaves growing out of them which the concerned nurse water regularly. There is a dual between death and a very sexy but clown-like Romeo slash Don Quixote character. The music is haunting and enchanting. At one point the woman appears to be losing her battle with death and she transcends from her bed by rope and stares down at herself being worked over by the doctors; beautiful metaphor for an out of body experience. Tossed in as a delicious distraction is paediatrician with a puppet obsession, circus acts, lectures on the workings of the brain and a pythonesque philosophical ranting about the meaning of life. It’s is a completely mesmerising, expertly performed, fresh and sexy piece of theatre. And apparently its based on a true story.