Since its foundation in 1981, the legendary Rezo Gavriadze Theater from Georgia has won countless hearts of viewers around the world. Now he presents his unique and magical world on the Suzan Dellal stage in Tel Aviv as part of the M.ART festival.
“Ramona” is a heart-wrenching love story between two… locomotives. In the post-war Soviet Union, the locomotive engineer Aron is sent to work in Siberia, while his wife Ramona waits for him at the small train station Rioni.
The play is based on a sentence said by Rudyard Kipling: “Next to the marine engine, the locomotive is the most sensitive object that man has ever created.” Gabriadze incorporates another motif into the story – a traveling circus – a symbol of childhood and happiness: “The locomotive and the traveling circus are things that have disappeared from the world. I felt the need to tell about the feeling of paradise that once surrounded me, without me deserving of it, and from which I was exiled by life,” says the director.
“The genius of Gabriadze, the founder of the National Theater Studio of Tbilisi, is in casting epic events into miniature scenes of a puppet theater – some of which are playful and extremely amusing.” (American Theater)
Playwright, director, and artistic director: Rezo Gabriadze
Animation: Tamar Amirjibi, Giorgi Giorgovini, Irakli Sarshidze, Niko Glovni, Anna Nijardze, Tamar Kovahidze
Driven by his enormous love and passion for dance, theatre, and music, Yoel Peer, producer extraordinaire, is committed, for more than a decade, to bringing shows from abroad. Yoel and Bimot Productions has become the central, pivotal force in cultural show business in Israel by collaborating and initiating festivals, dance performance, musicals, and theatre.
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