Mountain

Posted November 17th, 2014 filed under Uncategorized.

Mountain / Yaron Edelstein
Coronation, Kingdom, Dismissal - A Trilogy

Absurd Fantasy Poetic Drama Tragedy Subject: Death Love Mythology Survival Violence War Text in: he German	Five soldiers are trapped in an endless war. They keep coming back to the starting point where they are asked to go into battle to protect their land, and each time the level of sacrifice demanded of them rises. From this nightmarish trap a hero emerges – Mountain – whose character encompasses the promise of decisive victory and salvation. Mountain’s character is shaped as a lyrical reflection of the former Israeli prime minister and retired general Ariel Sharon, and the plot is inspired by battles that the Israeli public finds controversial: the retaliation attacks of the 1950s, the Yom Kippur War, and the Second Lebanon War.
The characters	Female:0 Male:5 Total:5
Translations	English, German
Productions	Premierre 2014 Notzar theatre director: Dalit Milstein More in Israel 2019, Tmu-na theatre, adapted and directed by Hen David. Productions Abroad Germany In 2010 the play won an award at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt Festival in Germany and was chosen to be produced as a full production. Timo Krstin directed its European premiere in 2011 at the Theater & Orchester Heidelber. Berg (Europäische Erstaufführung) von Yaron Edelstein, Mitarbeit: Dalit Milshtein Regie: Timo Krstin, Bühne und Kostüme: Flurin Borg Madsen, Dramaturgie: Nina Steinhilber. Mit: Simon Bauer, Klaus Cofalka-Adami, Paul Grill, Natanael Lienhard, Matthias Rott.
Critics	Harald Raab, reviewing in the Nachtkritik wrote: "Edelstein gives an insight into the physical and psychological destruction of immediate experiences during warfare: no heroic epic, but also no striking anti-war piece. Just an Ecce homo - and therefore strong: young men who have not yet overcome their fear of the mythical woman and therefore boast about their sexual conquest adventures, in the extreme situation of having to kill and in the danger of being killed themselves." Raab, Haarald (January 2011). When young men go to war. Nachtkritik. https://web.archive.org/web/20140428000722/http://titelmagazin.com/artikel/223/8620/yaron-edelstein-berg---ein-israelisches-kriegsst%C3%BCck-am-heidelberger-theater-deutsch-erstaufgef%C3%BChrt.html https://www.hagalil.com/2011/01/berg/ https://www.jpost.com/Metro/Climb-every-mountain-375746