CREATIVE TEAM

 

Author Caryl Churchill

Translation Svyatoslav Tugeev

 

CAST

 

Maxim Didenko

Ilya Del

Nikolai Khamov

Regina Khabibullina

Sonia Kushnir

 Anti-war poetic action. Liberation from fear, in seven songs.

 

The piece is built on Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children,” heard here in Russian for the first time. Written in response to the 2009 war in Gaza (Operation Cast Lead), the text is shaped like a prayer—except that a prayer is said silently, and this must be spoken aloud, in public.

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The girl, whom the audience never sees, works as a metonym that widens with every act: seven Jewish children become all the children in the world who must face death.

 

Didenko’s fiercely political piece is a prepared improvisation—unbearably topical today, and condemned to stay that way until someone answers the question: how do you tell children that adults are murderers who are desperately afraid of dying?