The actor stood on the theater stage every night until the corona arrived • Now he has to make do with a staged reading of a play, which will be broadcast on the Cameri's Facebook page
"We must not despair, despair is a dangerous thing."
Asaf
Photography:
Coco
In recent months, the world of theater has had to reinvent itself, and move to online works that are broadcast online or zoom.
The Cameri Theater will hold an online festival of original plays, "Here and Now," this month.
As part of the festival, which will take place from November 23 to 29, and will be broadcast on the theater's Facebook page, a staged reading of a new original Israeli play will be broadcast every evening.
The artistic director of the festival is Gur Koren, and among the actors who will participate in the readings are Shmuel Vilozny, Laura Rivlin, Neta Gerti, Ola Schur, Helena Yarlova, Molly Shulman, Roi Assaf and more.
Roi Assaf (41) will take part in the reading of the play "Apartment 11" written by Shir Abramov and directed by Noa Wagner.
Other actors in the play: Naomi Harari, Nadav Assulin, Gal Popular, Neta Spiegelman and Sean Mongoza.
Assaf plays Adam, a musician who faces loneliness and frustration.
"It's a lovely sight to see," he says.
"On the one hand it is very simple and everyday in its approach, and on the other hand it is very poetic. It is a collage of three stories about three couples who all live in the same building, stories that fit together. I play Adam, a musician who in another second celebrates 40 Who makes pretty niche jazz music, and doesn't get the recognition he wants. He also has a relationship with someone 20 years his junior, a half-fan (Naomi Harari), and they have a complex relationship story. The play is unrelated to the Corona period but does describe A great sense of crisis that everyone is experiencing. "
How is the experience of doing filmed theater?
"It's a very different experience. I did another project filmed in Zoom, initiated by Sharon Danon, and it's very different. There is no audience and there is no such thing as turning the theater into a theater - the live and unmediated encounter between audience and actor. But it's also not an experience that there is in film photography. It's this weird creature, or Facebook Live. You have no feedback, you feel a little bit in a bubble, without being able to understand how things resonate with the audience. It's not really theater. "And who knows what he will look like after the corona."
How are you going through this period?
"For the last four years I have played every night in the theater. I miss people very much, first of all, we had a cast that became a family, and also a meeting with the audience. I remember sitting with Tiki Dayan when the Corona started and we did not understand where it was going.
" joke.
Who will close the theater?
How do you close a theater?
Then the theater closed and I was also interrupted by the filming of a new film that I also co-wrote with Erez Tadmor, 'Nobody's Children.'
We completed the filming later, while in the corona.
The corona only revealed the dismal state of the cultural world.
There are important questions here, like how did we get into this situation?
Who is responsible? ".
Your wife is also an actress. You two have been at home for a long time. Stressful?
" We refuse to get into anxiety.
I hear friends and colleagues who are beginning to despair, and in my eyes must not despair.
Despair is a dangerous place. "