It is a unique meeting between Ibsen's iconic text and its inspiration and the stage language of the ensemble. The classic play receives a visual and contemporary modern adaptation that makes it more relevant than ever. In the world of social networks, media and ratings in the spiritual "wilderness" of the 21st century, empty and barren, the "Ibsenian" horror from the social scandal of the late 19th century finds a threatening parallel in the form of "Shaming" on the networks. In a world where appearance is everything, being denounced online can and has resulted in the loss of many. Heda, a "media star", the daughter of a dead general, finds herself "stuck" in an unhappy marriage, struck by the boredom and "Instagram" emptiness that characterizes our time, and lacking a purpose in life, she is swept away by jealousy, impulsiveness and a sense of self-worth combined with confused ideas about Beauty and an aesthetic ideal for a whirlwind of actions that brings it to an end. Heda's tragedy, which takes place in 36 hours, is a tragedy of our time now, fast, viral and deadly. By using video projections, in dialogues between filmed characters and "alive" and synchronized interaction between the "filmed" and the "living", a blurring of boundaries between the virtual world, the world of screens and social networks and the real world in which Heda exists, is created on stage, the virtual world takes over threatening and pushing You went to the bitter end.
The show becomes a warning sign against the power of social networks, the discourse to which society has degenerated, from the rigid social/aesthetic norms that do not allow any deviation and the inability to accept the other and shines a spotlight on the spiritual sterility that characterizes our time.
Editing and directing: Yoav Michaeli
Video art: Eli Levy
Original music: Amir Groman
Setting: Avi Sechvi
Costumes: Liron Pniel
Production: Tal Dahan
Lighting programming: Ronen Ben Harosh
Actors: Tzahala Michaeli, Eyal Schechter, Dedi Zohar, Reut Gil Atias
Filmed actor: Gil Frank