featured En: Shura

Posted September 1st, 2024 filed under featured En, fen En.

Shura / Roee Joseph
The Mission of Identifying Life


A-genre Documentary Drama Experimental Theatre Historical Play New Writing Poetic Drama Psychological Drama Subject: A Search Crisis Death Human Soul Humor Mythology Philosophy Suicidality Survival Terror The Land of Israel Violence History Arab-Israeli Conflict Judaism War Text in: he German English The text in external website	A reality based play Roee Joseph spent sixty days in Shura military base, somewhere in the center of the country. For sixty days, he partook in one of the most complex tasks known to the human mind – identifying victims of a massacre. For long hours, Roee and the other soldiers recruited for the mission looked for any identifying marks that would facilitate recognition of the dead, and allow burial. On his breaks, Roee took out his computer, and began writing. He wrote what he saw, heard, experienced: thoughts, moments that had unfolded before his eyes, an exact transcription of what was said around him, and spontaneous interviews with the ones who were there. Shura is a deep, poetic, honest and sometimes funny observation about hardship. Shura understands that in order to bury something you need to know what it is. Shura is a brave and exposed attempt to allow us all to understand what was there, and, perhaps, to put it to proper rest.
The characters	Female:4 Male:10+ Total:14+ ME (30) Man YOCHANAN (40-50) Man SHEHADE (30) Man THE WORLD (5800) ROSA (23) Woman BOAZ CHAMAMI (50-55) Man A SOLDIER WHO SINGS ‘WHITE DAYS’ (20-30) Man ILAN OR EREZ (34) Man MERAV (Possibly 45) Woman AVIAD T-R-O-S-T (25-30) Man SHLOMO TEITELBAUM (34) Man ITAY. WITH DIMPLES. READ HARRY POTTER IN ENGLISH (25-30) Man A SOLDIER WHO WROTE A DIARY (25-30) Man TZION, A REEFER LORRY DRIVER (34) Man SOLDIER 1 (18-40) Man SOLDIER 2 (18-40) Man SOLDIER 3 (18-40) Man SOLDIER 4 (18-40) Man SOLDIER 5 (18-40) Man NOFAR FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH (30-40) Woman ADIRA FROM THE HOME OFFICE (50+) Woman A WHITE BUTTERFLY THE GROOM (30-40) Man END-OF-SUMMER CLOUDS
Translations	English, German
Productions	Premierre 2024 Tmoona Theatre director: Roee Joseph Production page theaters Tmoona Theatre More in Israel https://www.roeejoseph.com/projects/shura%3A-the-mission-of-identifying-life
Critics	"The text alone is chilling and significant, one that deserves to be published. It holds historical and psychological importance, while also standing out in its documentary and poetic qualities." Critic Nano Shabtai, Haaretz
Quotes	ME: This play should begin with a very big apology to the Army CID reservist commander who has one eye and who, upon seeing me here for the first time, turned to me and said “Don’t you dare make a show about what you’ve seen here. I am half joking but I’m dead serious”. And the heavy feeling that stayed with me for the rest of that day found itself articulated in the following message: “Hi Victor, if you have time later on, I’d like to speak with you a bit more in depth about what you said”. A message which, as of yet, did not receive a reply.