Political Assassinator
A solo performance that meditates on the nature of war.
An exploration into the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its profoundly frustrating impasse.
A performance that shifts from violent spasms to elegiac undulations, it is perversely beautiful. Its energy stems from a desire for peace, which negotiates its way with great subtlety between nave optimism and frustrated despair. The carnage of daily atrocities gets a poetic second-life. Absurdity dissolved with deadly seriousness. A comedy that reflects the propensity for violence in all of us.
Each movement explains ideas that verbally would take hours to express. Mosenzons body perfectly portrays meanings and ideas to his audience. In his poetic, controlled, impassioned movement we see both child-like innocence and a mature depth of heart; we see utter seriousness and laughable absurdity; we see Israelis and Palestinians. An emotionally stirring performance, a reinvention of political physical theatre.
As I am from Israel, WAR has always been of a great concern that affects tremendously my life and my culture. In my life, War is like my stage design it surrounds me and gives colour, and context to my being. I try to understand WAR. I do not try to give a solution for ending the violence, this inquiry in itself, is an act toward peace. Yoram Mosenzon