ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Using audio recordings, light design, and projected images on eight TV screens, PA’AM wishes to offer the audience a stroll between fragments of memory, longings and introspection. Recorded texts, projected texts, and images reveal the three main stories, told autobiographically by well known Israeli figures - musician Eran Zur, actress Ora Meirson and actor Doron Tavori. The stories, a mixture of facts, thoughts, nostalgic longing and guilt, are coiled together into a mosaic of broken memories producing an hybrid image of the past. The lighting and the screens, projecting texts, and many different images are the actual performers in this work, giving additional layers of information to the spoken word. Pa’am is a fascinating and compelling narrative of the complexity of the human condition, where light, video, images, sound and the human voice fill the stage and create a whole and unique experience.

THE AUTHOR

NADAV BARNEA (born 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist, a musician and a lighting designer. Barnea has established himself as a leading light and sound designer working with many prominent dance and theatre creators. As a singer-songwriter, Barnea has published his debut album in 2014, which received praising reviews and was played extensively in various radio stations. In the last three years Barnea has started creating lighting and sound installations that were presented within group multidisciplinary exhibitions such as Censorship, The Art to Survive and Protest all in Aza13 in Jaffa. Pa’am is his first full length theatrical-installation. The work premiered within the 2016 Acco Festival for Alternative Theatre.

FROM THE REVIEWS

A unique fascinating journey to the personal and collective past… drawing the audience to a nostalgic conscious stream that requires concentration and attentiveness… if we return to the debate about  avantgarde theatre, this performance, being a refreshing psychedelic trip is indeed exactly that.

Yair Ashkenazi, Ha’aretz Daily News Paper

 

PA'AM is a multidisciplinary work that deals with the concept of memory and its components. Barnea draws you to a trip that is hard to get out off. Truly magical.

Ofir Hallel, Ma’ariv Daily News Paper

 

A compelling performance instilation where music, light and personal texts combine into a fascinating statement.

Zvi Goren, Habama

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