I created a process in which the encounter between the various performers adds layers to the event, and undermines the main story’s uniformity. I played with the possibility to bring together the world of theatre and other worlds that are close to it: magic shows, musical performances, and circus.

The Jewish traditional depiction of each character became the stimulus for the theatrical language. For example, Datan and Aviram are considered in Jewish tradition to be a couple of complainers who defied Moses and got swallowed by the earth. In the show the became clowns who wish to badmouth Moses, disappear suddenly, pop up, and disappear again all through the performance.

We started the process with personal rehearsals, in which I learned the performative language of each performer and her approach to the work. Towards the event we met for group rehearsals and structured the encounters between the characters and the action in space.