After the musicians, BTI - the theater director's union in Israel - joins the protest against censorship and the coup d'état: at the end of the week, the directors published a manifesto calling for action and against it.
"Sometimes things should simply be said: We are being closed! The elected government is legal - but not democratic. It works to eliminate the democratic essence: the plurality of opinions, human rights, minority rights, freedom of expression and freedom of choice.
"Only a few weeks from the day of its establishment, and it is already rushing more and more towards a country where the tyranny of the majority, censorship and the reduction of thought rule. Because of this, it is not legitimate, it does not obey the democratic rules of the game. Everyone who values human value, freedom and Zionism in their hearts must come out and fight.
The stage's artistic director, Moshe Kaptan, photo: Koko
"In a democratic society we have a role to carry the dialogue, the conflict and shine a light on the areas of society that no one sees. A role that the new government sees as unnecessary and even harmful. What is left for us to do? What everyone must: demonstrate, write, speak, convince. We will use our abilities There are tremendous talents in our union. We will represent, perform, create, record, write and compose and say what is on our hearts. We will make art so good that it will be impossible to ignore.
Natan Dettner, photo: Yehoshua Yosef
"We call on the creators of the theater as well as the directors of the theaters not to be afraid and not to refrain from speaking their minds," reads the letter, which is signed by, among others: Dafna Engel, Dana Devorin, Natan Dettner, Sarah von Schwartz, Oded Kotler, Yair Sherman, Dalia Shimko, Renana Raz, Moshe Kaptan, Esti Zakheim and Nina Oppenheim, CEO of BTI.
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