{"id":18808,"date":"2012-04-15T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T20:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=18808"},"modified":"2012-04-15T22:55:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T05:55:31","slug":"the-voice-of-peace-at-theatronetto-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=18808","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of Peace at Theatronetto 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First year students at the Kibbutz College held their traditional \u201cArtistic Hyde Park\u201d \u2013 an outdoor happening of installations and performances at Theatronetto 2012. Now in its fourth edition, with a different theme selected\u00a0 each year. Peace was the word this year, as the works were created in tribute to Abie Natan, peace activist and humanitarian who broadcast great music on the Voice of Peace \u2013 \u201csomewhere in the Mediterranean.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a lot of energy, some of it perhaps too diffuse, and the intentions of the performers\/creators was not always clear, but there were several intriguing works.<\/p>\n

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A uniformed Dorothy called out \u201cThere\u2019s no place like home,\u201d while her companions took the oars, looking lost and frightened.<\/p>\n

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The land was literally pulled in all directions by these three.<\/p>\n

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The Beatles sang their part: \u201cAll we are saying\/Is give peace a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A man in a Kaffiya and a woman in a headscarf walked through the square interacting with the festival visitors offering \u201cfree hugs,\u201d two young women dressed in white also walked among the crowd smiling and saying \u201cShalom\u201d (peace), while yet another student, smartly suited in black, walked holding out her hand in a gesture of peace \u2013 with blinders on.<\/p>\n

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A loving John & Yoko invited everyone to come into their \u201cbed of peace\u201d \u2013 connected by a sheet, they wrapped themselves around whoever wanted to join in, embracing their new friends.<\/p>\n

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This group of students protested the prostitution of the concept of peace.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Universe wandered through the crowd with a broken leg and crutches, smiling sadly and saying, \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I failed. You voted for me but I failed.\u201d For those who are not pageant viewers, her apology refers to the traditional pageant contestant\u2019s declaration that what she would like to accomplish most is \u201cworld peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the installation that had by far the strongest visual and emotional impact was the boat itself, the Voice of Peace and its crew: the dead soldiers. They silently went about the tasks on board ship, swabbing the bloody deck, confronting the viewer with the ravages of war.<\/p>\n

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First year students at the Kibbutz College held their traditional \u201cArtistic Hyde Park\u201d \u2013 an outdoor happening of installations and performances at Theatronetto 2012. Now in its fourth edition, with a different theme selected\u00a0 each year. Peace was the word this year, as the works were created in tribute to Abie Natan, peace activist and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}