The sleeping thousand - Aix-en-Provence Festival (2019) - Les Mille endormis - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (2019)

Description

World Premiere.

"Thousands of administrative detainees go on a hunger strike. The Prime Minister decides to plunge them into a sleep that would divert international attention, but now thousands of Palestinian sleepers are causing insomnia to the Israeli people. So, they have to send an emissary in the world of dreams ... Through their dreamlike parable, their tale between gravity and lightness, the composer Adam Maor and the playwright Yonatan Levy, both Israeli, speak of a torn country, a multicultural society that her leaders are no longer seen as an organic whole, but as an irreconcilable mosaic. Their colorful opera, alternately fantasizing and dreamy, created at the Aix Festival before an international tour, comes from a certainty : there is no other homeland than the space between one soul and another. "

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