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Mud

Cast:

Yigael Sachs

Alex Krul

Liz Rabian

Shosh Reisman

By: Maria Irene Forness

Translation: Yigael Sachs

Directed by: Yigael Sachs

Set and costume design: Daphne Peretz

Lighting design: Jake Sliv

Music: Shosh Reisman

"The play Mud, directed and starring Yigael Sachs, illustrates everything that is good about Tmuna Theater.

The viewer finds himself emotionally involved in the fate of the characters... Here the three actors do the impossible, Liz Rabian breaks the heart with her sad and beautiful helplessness, Shosh Reisman accompanies the play with music she wrote, playing and singing, in a way that both characterizes the characters and adds an ironic touch to the play."

Michael Handelsaltz/Haaretz

This charged play, which has small moments of light and humor, was translated and directed by Yigael Sachs, who created a fascinating, painful performance, staged in the intimate Cycle Hall of Tmuna. The original set was designed by Daphne Peretz, making good use of the space, with a row of clotheslines on which sheets and clothes hang in the background and a muddy ground that encloses the residential complex. Yaakov Sliv's lighting enriched the layers of the background and the main scene of the action. Sachs decided to add a fourth character to the play who does not appear in the original play – Shosh Reisman, who wrote the "bluesy" music with which she accompanies the play on piano and in singing. She seems to be observing what is happening from the sidelines, emphasizing moods or commenting with subtle irony. At one point, she also conducts an open, improvised dialogue with Lloyd, who plays a tiny harmonica. The main achievements of the director focus on Sachs's deep understanding of the world and identity of the three people and their inability to create a living connection with the other, who claims "everything" for himself. These achievements are reflected in the design and quality of the acting, which gives depth to the personal and connected stories of the characters."
Zvi Goren, The Stage

May and Lloyd, two ignorant and poor young people. A family.

Lloyd is an illiterate, immature man, and May supports them both. Mud.

May is learning to read, she dreams of a different life.

Hope.

May brings home Henry, he is eloquent, mature, and educated. Love.

May suggests to Henry that he live with her and Lloyd.

Family.

Henry is injured in an accident, he becomes disabled.

Mud.

May doesn't give up hope. Henry and Lloyd don't give up love.

Sea...

Six nominations for the "Golden Hedgehog" Independent Theater Award, including Best Show, of which Liz Rabian won for Actress of the Year, and Shosh Reisman for Music.