Inspired in Kleist's 1810 essay of same name.
Credits
Direction, Text, Design and Performance: Patricia O'Donovan
Stage and Prop Construction: Mario Keizman
Music: Ittay Binnun
Consultant Dramaturgist: Yael Citron
Production: Patricia O'Donovan-AMBULO Theater, with the assistance of the Pays Lottery Agency for Arts and Culture.
Kleist's essay "On the Theater of the Marionettes" is both a warning of what happens to us, humans, if we lose connection to our own souls in a society that increasingly dehumanizes us, and an offer of hope of how to solve this predicament.
Guest of Pandora Collective. Train Theater of Jerusalem, November 2016.
Opening: Festival of the Arts. March 2017