An approach to the border between family love and the prejudices provoked by hate. In this coproduction by Festival Grec 2024 and La Perla 29, external violence affects the small domestic life, and generations are gone to pieces when past goes beyond present.
Eitan is a young guy from a German Jewish family that lives in New York and studies human DNA. He gets to know Wahida, a young girl from Arab origin who writes her thesis study about a wise humanist from the sixteenth century that was forced to convert from Islam to Christianity. They fall in love, and Eitan will have to face his family and confront their religious beliefs. When they set out on a travel to Israel and West Bank, Eitan is injured by a terrorist attack in the border bridge of Allenby that plunges him in a severe coma. His family has thus to travel from Germany to Tel Aviv, where they will discover the past history of their family and they will have to cope with the overwhelming presence of Wahida while the world bursts into a mixture of different beliefs, human DNAs, religions, and fates.
Coproduced by Festival Grec 2024 and La Perla 29
Author
Wajdi Mouawad
Direction and space
Oriol Broggi
Performers
Queralt Albinyana, Guillem Balart, Xavier Boada, Joan Carreras, Marissa Josa, Miriam Moukhles, Xavier Ruano, Clara Segura
Translation
Cristina Genebat
Dressing
Berta Riera
Sound
Damien Bazin
Video
Francesc Isern
Lights
Pep Barcons
Voices
Xavier Ricart, Montse Vellvehí
Construction of scenography
Taller d’escenografia Castells, Pascualín Estructures
Video assistant and subtitles
Aurembiaix Montardit
Make up
Jennifer Fernández
Hairdresser
Isabel Trias
Touring technicians
Fernando Acosta, Roger Blasco, Maria Molist, Pau Montull
Photography and video of creative process
Alex Rademakers
Photography of the show
Bito Cels
Promotional clip
David Andreu
Acknowledgements
Lurdes Vidal, Manuel Forcano, Antònia Sixto, Eli Peracaula, Xavier Ricart, Montse Vellvehí, La Colline– Théâtre Nacional