{"id":538,"date":"2009-05-17T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-05-17T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T20:25:28","slug":"girl-youve-got-to-carry-that-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Girl, You’ve Got to Carry That Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hanoch Levin\u2019s play \u201cYou, Me and the Next War\u201d is a hard act to follow. This Tuesday, May 19th young playwright Oded Liphshitz will see his new play \u201cThe Girl Who is Actually a Wheelbarrow<\/a>\u201d directed by his professor, Edna Shavit, who has not directed a student\u2019s play since directing Levin\u2019s in 1968.<\/p>\n

Liphshitz, a first year student in the MA program of the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv Universtiy, began as a poet and drummer. Deciding that his younger brother was a better percussionist, he left the drums for the piano, which he often features in his plays. Writing dialogue is something that developed over time. Liphshitz says, \u201cWhen I found those voices, poetry began to feel so esoteric and narrow.\u201d Both music and poetry find their expression within his plays \u2013 he composed music for \u201cChair\u201d and plays the piano in \u201cTzotzi\u201d, which has been showing at the Tmuna Theatre in Tel Aviv. Relying on imagery and association rather than linear narrative, his dramatic writing might well be described as poetic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Girl Who is Actually a Wheelbarrow\u201d describes a search for identity through a sequence of encounters. When I comment that the dominant voices in his plays are often female voices (the main characters in \u201cTzotzi\u201d and \u201cGirl\u201d), Liphshitz says: \u201cI feel free within that movement between male and female\u2026 the duality of voices is something I experience as an actor. The desire to be in several places at once, to enter many characters. The female voice is very strong within me when I write.\u201d He does not want to say too much about the current production, explaining, \u201cthe more I talk, everything becomes less and less clear\u2026it is a very personal journey. The character of the girl is a part of me that belongs to time; an internal process that I went through\u2026it\u2019s strange to see it become a public event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having directed several of his own plays, he is delighted with the experience of \u201cputting it in the hands of someone as creative as Edna.\u201d Having attended several rehearsals, Liphshitz says he \u201cenjoyed seeing my play through the imagination of another person. Seeing Edna\u2019s interpretation I understood things that I had not realized before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Girl Who is Actually a Wheelbarrow will be performed:
\nMay 19, 20, 24, 27 and June 1, 6 at 20:30
\nMay 23, 25, 30 and June 4 at 21:00
\nFriday, May 22 at 12:30
\nRoom 140, Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University
\nInformation & tickets: 03-6424054<\/p>\n

Image credit: Uri Levin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hanoch Levin\u2019s play \u201cYou, Me and the Next War\u201d is a hard act to follow. This Tuesday, May 19th young playwright Oded Liphshitz will see his new play \u201cThe Girl Who is Actually a Wheelbarrow\u201d directed by his professor, Edna Shavit, who has not directed a student\u2019s play since directing Levin\u2019s in 1968.<\/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-538","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\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}