Community Karov...well the kids love it.

The Karov Theatre meets the kids from the ARDC, Tel Aviv.

Before leaving for Eilat last Friday I made the beautiful discovery that Dorit and co pioneered a very special day last August. Around 40 children from the African Refugee and Development Centre spent a day at the theatre with actors, technicians and designers, plus the Karov team, to learn all about the magic of theatre and the all-important links with playtime.

I couldn't believe I'd been here nearly 3 months and never known about this, especially as Fiona and Gemma and lots of other Oranimers are volunteering for the ARDC. Later this week I will meet with Joanna, who manages the centre, to see if we can fundraise to make this a regular event. Below is the English page I've written for the Karov website. If you know of anyone or anything that could help, do let me know.

Love, and She Festival backlog coming coming coming, as well as forthcoming attendance of the (naked) Ashram Festival in the desert, the All About Jewish Theatre Next Generation, and a very special award for the Karov for our delicious show The Clown, the Whore and the Intellectual.

Shavua tov le culam.

She 2010...First coverage and mucho excitimondo

Well, we have been invited to the Lik Festival by Grigory Kofman (the nice Russian director from the bench in Kiryat Motzkin). Liron and Linor spoke to Nico to propose the task of adapting and directing Chekhov's Spirit Of The Forest for 7 actors, 1 and a half hours and, er, a forest. Nico is in Romania and says that they are all too nice to him there and it is unnatural. In celebration we opened a pleasant bottle of wine and created a bar-type arrangement in the corridor.

Last week Linor took some lovely pictures of Dorit and me for the She Festival (see Woman In the Wall for more on my piece). Some very exciting contortions occurred, many of them involving a ladder.

Our first mention of the year on ynet can be found here. In a brief translation/summary, The Karov Theatre will present a variety of female performers through various media including participants from Berlin and London. Watch this space as The Woman In The Wall grows within various Karov corners. Briut xx

The SHE Festival goes live on Kadmus, and daddy meets dorit...

Gerald got poorly in the throat and didn't come to hear Alexa's thrilled, spilled and pilled up thoughts about eating twins and subtitling the mentally ill or whatever I mentioned last time

Oh, you can change the font colour and see how it looks when you type. How exciting. Now I am going to write something that is really difficult to see hahaa oh but I can't see it either so never mind.

So thoughts for Gerry will have to wait. Instead, I took Brian to meet Dorit and co. It was great although we couldn't get any proper cookies because it is Pesach. I showed dad all the nice backstage and the wide stage and the foyer and office and tea and coffee and we talked about twinning the She Festival in particular with the New End. Ann has since made a page for this year's SF on Kadmus which is ever so nice of her. I will add some pictures here next week.

Increasingly I am excited about The Woman In The Wall. I think I would like to have a tyre as my swing, or something round-ish. They have now those wide round swings with three pieces of rope and they go round as well as up and down. The Sailor pushed me in one at Edinburgh and it was so much fun. Also, I always prefer round and round to backwards and forwards.

As a result of going to the Karov and meeting Dorit, B has an idea for a play about families in theatres, especially fathers and daughters. It sounds quite interesting actually. Anyway, we shall see. I also want to get Alef Alef to London in some shape or form, to promote the work of Jewish artists on the issue of domestic violence.

My dad said he was happy I went to the Karov and not somewhere like the Cameri, which I thought was nice. Also I felt very proud in a general way. It is sad he won't get to see anything there this time.