PARRHESIA is a theatre show that explores the connection between the wedding ceremony and the funeral ceremony. This show is the third and last part of the director’s trilogy called #posthome_theatre which explores rituals. PARRHESIA is a mashup event that brings together two rites of passage in the life of one woman, portrayed by two actresses. In one world – her wedding ceremony, and in a parallel world – the funeral service for her father. In PARRHESIA, the audience is asked to move between participating in the joy and participating in the sorrow. The shake between the two extremes seeks to create an additional space, separate and independent, in which the split is possible in which one woman is present.

How to begin telling our life story? And what happens when the end of the story arrives in the middle? An actor wishes to find an end to his life story. The actress who shares the stage with him embodies the supporting roles in His-Story. Slowly, the actress discovers more and more female characters, silent and silenced, who are mentioned on the margins of the page. The actress wants to play Her-Story, and the two embark on a passionate battle for the narrating position. All the while, a flower continues to flourish in the man’s mouth, and the mute women’s vocal cords scream out of the piano strings … Is there a connection between the actors and the characters’ story? When does the playing end and reality begins? Or is this story actually about us? An intimate, visual and poetic cabaret that adapts to the stage a short story by Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello. The Italian playwright sketches an image of the “before” and “after” and tries to map out an architecture for transformation. The dialogue originally written for two men is adapted by director Orly Noa Rabinian as an ensemble piece for an actress, actor, disassembled piano and red ink.

When was the last time you took part in a tea ceremony?

As the daughter of Persian parents who immigrated from Iran, she always had hot tea, even during the hottest days of Israeli summer.

Director Orly Noa Rabinyan invites you to submit yourselves to a Persian tea ceremony. A ceremony that is both genuine and fictional, ancient and contemporary, foreign and familiar.

An interview about the ceremony 

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