“Not easy times have passed us in Otef since the October disaster,” actor and creator Amitai Yaish-Ben Ozilio, who runs the Otef HaNegev Theater, tells ‘Daver’. These days, Yaish-Ben Ozilio is performing with the play ‘Man’ at the Tamune Theater in Tel Aviv. “Slowly we are returning to performing, not yet under wraps, but returning to the theater offices and rehearsal rooms in the hope of moving the theater back to work in the area.”
In the play ‘Man’, which premiered as part of the Teatronto festival 2023, no Yeaish ben Ozilio (58) the story of his growing up as a sensitive child in the village of Gvirol in Rehovot. He started the process of writing the play following the mentoring course for men’s circles that he attended at the School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. “That’s where the need to bring to the stage through my biography the man’s struggle, in my case the Mizrachi, against the path toward which society or family directs him began to grow.”
He wrote the play with the poet and spoken word man Ward Yossi Sabari. “Together with the musician Assaf Roth, we jointly created the show. The designer Doron Ashkenazi also joined us and together we created a piece that, in my eyes, is a voice for the masculinity of all of us.”
The show ‘Man’ brings the confrontation of the boy who was with a father rough who works as an ironman – a model of masculinity that continues to accompany him even after his father passed away, and every meeting with an air conditioning technician puts him back in front of his expectations.
In a minimalist setting, with the main prop being a large toolbox placed on the stage, Yaish-Ben Ozilio takes the audience to the old Land of Israel. “Family members, neighbors and friends from the village I grew up with, came to the show many times and there was tremendous excitement. They respond to nuances that only they and I know, and that’s how I recognize every time if there is someone from the village in the hall. These are the people who walked with me in the orchards, who watched the adults around us together.”
“Every time I am moved by how my personal story is also the story of other men,” he says. “There is no end of a show in which the audience is not left to acknowledge and share, that they also went through similar experiences, that they too had a sheep, a rooster or a chick that was slaughtered for them, that they too were sensitive children in a rough environment. They too have a toolbox at home that is unused, just because they are men and We need a toolbox, let it be.”
Yaish-Ben Ozilio’s game is captivating. Using the talent of a skilled storyteller, he takes the viewers through a late coming of age journey, of the man he has grown to be, who suddenly decides to stand up to his wife who demands he get rid of the large tool box, which takes up space in the house and needs to be disposed of.
The show ‘Man’ by the Outaf Negev Theater is dedicated these days to the kidnapping of Ofer Calderon, the brother of Nissan Calderon, the theater’s technical director, and Sharon’s sister-in-law, the show’s director.
Upcoming show dates: April 3 in Tamune in Tel Aviv; April 11 at the Beer Sheva Theater.
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2024-04-01 21:33:27