Winter Family
H2-Hébron
septembersept 27 – 28
Friday september 27
22h
Saturday september 28
16h
H2 Hebron is a documentary theatre performance by Winter Family
Concept, sampling of reality, direction, set design Winter Family (Ruth Rosenthal / Xavier Klaine). With Ruth Rosenthal. Modelling and design Quentin Brichet (Made It printing - Geneva). Lighting and stage management Julienne Rochereau. Video Olivier Perola. Recordings and sound diffusion Xavier Klaine. Sound engineering Sébastien Tondo / Anne Laurin. Artistic collaboration Yaël Perlman, Jérôme Vernez, Éric Fesneau. English translation Tamar Liza Cohen. Administration, production and distribution EPOC Productions Emmanuelle Ossena & Charlotte Pesle Beal.
Production Winter Family
Coproduction Kunstencentrum Vooruit Gand, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, MC93 - Scène Nationale de Bobigny, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, TNB-Rennes, Centre Culturel ABC La Chaux-de-Fonds
With the support of La Fonderie, Le Mans, of Wevioo and of Focus
With creative support from DRAC Ile-de-France
La Commune, centre dramatique national d'Aubervilliers and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this Carte Blanche in co-production.
The script is published by Éditions l'Espace d'un instant.
Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.
H2 is the area administered by Israel in Hebron, the most densely populated town in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Its central street, Shuhada Street, has been ‘sterilised’, to use Israeli terminology, i.e. emptied of its Palestinian inhabitants for ‘security reasons’ since the installation of ultra-radical Jewish supremacist settler families. It's a ghost street, where destinies and narratives intersect, juxtapose, observe and clash. In 2016, Ruth Rosenthal decided to interview a childhood friend who had become a settler in Hebron. Together with Xavier Klaine, they recorded the testimonies of Palestinian residents and resistance fighters, Israeli soldiers, international observers and tourist guides in the area. These testimonies and the sounds they recorded in H2 are the raw material for the show. Offering a guided tour and handling a replica model of the area, Ruth embodies all the characters and the city itself through them. A stone's throw from the Tomb of the Patriarchs / Ibrahimi Mosque, whether chosen in exaltation or endured in the suffering of a cruel military occupation, lives are all too radical in H2 in Hebron.
In the same place