{"id":2688,"date":"2014-06-25T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/play\/%d7%a6%d7%97%d7%95%d7%a7-%d7%a9%d7%9c-%d7%a2%d7%9b%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a9-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T05:33:05","slug":"and-the-rat-laughed","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/and-the-rat-laughed\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Rat Laughed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And the Rat Laughed is an original opera in Hebrew based on Nava Semel’s accliamed novel from 2001. The music was composed by Israeli comopser Ella Milch-Sheriff. This novel dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust and the influence of this harrowing chapter of human history was highly praised for its courage in employing original and unconventional literary devices.<\/div>\n
This is the story of a nameless five-year-old girl, as told to her granddaughter years later. The child\u2019s parents entrust her to a family of farmers living in a remote Polish village. She is hidden in a dark potato cellar for over a year, with little food, and only a rat for company – and is repeatedly raped by the farmers\u2019 son.<\/div>\n
When the girl’s parents no longer send money, the farmer’s wife takes her to the village priest, urging him to kill her. But Father Stanislaw hides the Jewish child in his church and risks his life in healing her wounded body and broken soul.<\/div>\n
Sixty years later, already a grandmother in Tel Aviv, she tries to recount her horrifying childhood to her teenage granddaughter who is preparing a school paper. Memory, buried in the darkness for so long, demands its right to emerge. The five genres of the book: story, legend, poetry, futuristic fantasy and diary, are entwined to create the libretto.<\/div>\n
Lima Energelly, an anthropologist in the year 2099 is bent on uncovering the origins of the widespread myth “Girl & Rat” and is the main figure in the opera, who reveals on stage the circles of Remembearers, those who have the traumatic event registered in their consciousness. Futuristic Lima tries to force the memory on her partner Stash, who bears the same name as the rat who was once the only comfort of the hidden girl.<\/div>\n
The highlight of the opera is a Mass scene, when Father Stanislaw rebels against his Lord, who abandoned His children. In an attempt to restore the girl’s hope and her faith, the priest discovers he has lost his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the Rat Laughed is an original opera in Hebrew based on Nava Semel’s accliamed novel from 2001. The music was composed by Israeli comopser Ella Milch-Sheriff. This novel dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust and the influence of this harrowing chapter of human history was highly praised for its courage in employing original… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2687,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/2688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12686,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/2688\/revisions\/12686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}