“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues because there is no acceptance of the other. It takes the recognition of the other to appease the conflict. Art, theatre, cinema, literature do not change reality. But you have to start somewhere, talk, expose the contradictions, and I think that’s what we’re doing with this play on the Hill”.
After its documentary trilogy – The House (1980), A house in Jerusalem (1997), News from Home News from House (2005) – Amos Gitaï continues with the play House his work as an archaeologist of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
House tells the story of a West Jerusalem House for a quarter of a century through the stories of its successive occupants, Arabs and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis. Over the years, these biographical fragments draw a larger mosaic, that of a territory and a conflict as they are embodied in the existences of this microcosm.
On the stage of the theatre, the history of the House becomes a metaphor and the site of an artistic dialogue between actors and musicians from all over the Middle East, with different languages, origins and musical traditions, brought together to try to say together the memory of the past and the possibility of reconciliation.
Micha Lescot plays Michel Kishka, an artist grandson of a family of deportees to Auschwitz, guardian of the tragic memory of the Jews of Central Europe, and who decides to leave Brussels to settle in 1978 in Jerusalem, in the Dor Dor VeDorshav street, a street steeped in history, who heard German, Arabic, English, Yiddish, Hebrew.
Guests:
- Amos GitaiIsraeli artist, filmmaker and director and Micha Lescot, actor. The room House is on view at the Théâtre de la Colline until April 13, 2023.