Anda opens at Beit Lessin while Gilad Evron's The Argument of Don Quixote opens in the ensemble's brand new home the day before.
By HELEN KAYETheater Review 88(photo credit: )Anda, written and directed by Hillel Mittelpunkt, opens at Beit Lessin on September 24 while Gilad Evron's The Argument of Don Quixote, directed by Ofira Henig, artistic director of the Herzliya Theater Ensemble (HTE), opens in the ensemble's brand new home the day before.
Evron has based his play on the lesser known second volume of Cervantes's (1547-1616) enduring classic. In it, having learned not only that his adventures are now immortalized in literature but that his sanity and above all the existence of Dulcinea are questioned, Quixote, attended by the ever-faithful Sancho Panza, determines to prove his lady's existence. Not only does he fail, but he becomes the celebrity pawn of two unscrupulous dukes who turn his adventures into a show. The play, says Henig, seeks to explore both the realm of imagination and the ability to see beyond immediate and obvious reality.
Anda is set in 1961, just prior to the trial of Adolf Eichmann. At issue is the individual versus the establishment, especially when that establishment seeks to coerce the judicial process to comply with its perceived political and strategic goals.
Anda, a nurse and a survivor of Auschwitz, seeks to testify at the trial, but sees her testimony rejected for political reasons. Nochi, a brilliant young lawyer on the prosecution team, tries to make the evidence "conform," at considerable danger not only to his career, but to his principles and his love life.
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