MODEL


A Stage Performance with 4 Female Performers (60 mins)

Habait Theatre, 2023

""I'm not afraid to come up here tonight, thinking that this might be my last work on stage I'm not afraid that you'll forget me, you won't remember that I passed by here. You won't even have a moment of - "Well, what did you say her name was...she had such a strange name?”

Alit Kreiz invites three distinctive women of different ages to be her friends on stage for just one hour.

What they all have in common is the need to exist within a work of art, in front of an audience.

Their identity is built and dismantled from your gaze at them, and theirs at you.

They are fueled by magnetizing passion and the need to be seen. They play remembering and forgetting, exile and closeness, hopes and reality, beginnings and endings.

Their personal narratives get entangled; the layers of their stories are revealed as part of an emotional striptease and accumulate on stage as a pile of underwear alongside bouquets of flowers from a never-ending premiere.

Model looks at who and what are the models in our life, enabling us to overcome expectations about our roles and identity. Ultimately, it leads us to truly understand what inspires us to be ourselves.

Model is a work that will read your thoughts, a work that will fantasize about you, that will make you be its best friend. It will take care of you, and in the end also thank you.

Artistic Advice: Dafna Kron

Creative Participation: Ilana Baer, Yael Finkel, Mami Shimazaki, Alit Kreiz.

Stage Design: Iris Mualem

Lighting Design: Rotem Elroy

Music Design & Creation: Karni Postel

Movement Design: Renana Raz

Video Design: Shaked Harrari

Video Documentation: Yuval Hameiri

Photos: Yair Meyuhas

‘Model is a work of striking beauty, a performance about performance, about acting and action, becoming the creator of your own story, and the power of sharing those most intimate layers, in a work that is funny, tremendously entertaining, visually compelling, and deeply moving; the stage becomes an arena made holier by a shared experience, evoking a sense of ritual, community, and healing
— Ayelet Dekel,Midnight East, 2023.

Photos: Uri Rubinstain