The relationships and complex dating world of millennials is a whole world of abundance, selection and a lot of chaos that accompanies the many options available in it. The search for true love and the confusing culture of abundance and the gap between the desire to settle down and the search for the next good thing, Naama Manor (actress and director) and Roni Barnett (director) turned into a theater show that will run where everything happens: in various bars across the country.
"Inaccurate" will be called the show that will introduce the audience to intimate stories precisely in the public sphere. The play, written and directed by the two, will premiere on May 31 at the "Teder" compound, in the "House of Solidarity" space, and from there will continue to various bars such as "Spagat", "Hive", "March 2" and more, stars alongside Naama Manor also actors Ariel Kurt and Merav Shisha, and musician Roy Becker participates. About the production Lior Zakai and the dramaturgy Naama Shahar.
In a couple interview with Israel Hayom, Naama (27) and Roni (26) talk about creating together, which merges with life itself.
"Inaccurate", photo: Ben Hantkent
"I worked for a while at the Romano restaurant in Tel Aviv, in the 'Teder' complex, an entertainment space with music performances, where I saw a lot of couples coming to it and trying to create an intimate, honest and intimate experience in a space where there is a lot of alienation and indifference, to see and be seen," Naama says. "I've known Roni since high school, and when we worked together on another play, we connected and saw that the subject of searching for a relationship occupies both of us. We were both in pretty advanced relationships, but we didn't know how to say this was it yet. Then the question of what is 'it' began to occupy us?
"We saw that we didn't have a model, because our generation doesn't survive as much as our parents. There's an experience of searching and lots of abundance, and there's always more. We realized that there was something tragic about this experience that we both had on a personal level; Feel like you're in a place and you don't know how to say 'I'm here.' We connected with the films Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Worst Man in the World, which talk about the endless search that ultimately leads to nothing. You grabbed a multiple, you didn't catch.
"We've written about it for years; Some of the pieces in the work were written in 2017, pieces we wrote around the age of 20, and some were written in recent months for the piece. There is a process of journey and movement within this decade," Ronnie adds. "This is a very 'underground' process, without the support of an external body. A lot of the rehearsals were done in the living room. For example, one Friday evening we sat at Naama's house for 7 hours trying to figure out the correct order of the passages in a certain section."
Rehearsals in the living room for "inaccurate", photo: uncredited
Is this actually a real show? In sections?
Naama: "It's a collection of pieces that are all related to relationships. All the couples are played by the same three players, each time in a different combination, constantly looking for the fix, for someone better. There are couples in the piece that we go back to check on them; A dialogue that we are reviving, that is developing, a process that couples are going through."
"Loneliness and falsity of authenticity"
"From working at Romano, we realized that there was something about trying to bring us to people and not people to the theater. To be in the space of the bar, in the place where we experienced ourselves in it, where there is an encounter between intimate texts that could have been said at home but said in the space of the bar."
Ronnie: "In our conversations we find ourselves in a loop of whether a relationship is a fate or a choice. We examine our ability to 'surrender' alongside our desire to constantly find something more precise for ourselves. They ask how we can create something unique in an age of available intimacy. Somehow, in a culture of endless exposure, I still feel that the biggest disease of our generation is loneliness and falsity of authenticity."
In various bars around the country, the show "Conversations with the Bartender" is held, in which actors sit together with the audience at the bar, and from time to time the music stops, the light rises, and the actor or actress begins a monologue. The two make it clear, however, that despite this location, for them it is a different kind of experience.
Rehearsals for "inaccurate", photo: uncredited
Ronnie: "Our show tries to create a blur between the actors and the audience. There are texts that are actually read with the audience, develop a relationship with them, pay a lot of attention to them. These are not separate monologues, but a dialogue we have with the audience."
Given the location, is this show really only for a young audience?
Ronnie: "Right now we're addressing the audience that comes to these bars, who are really of certain ages. But we also got to present parts of the work to a slightly older audience and they found a pretty strong connection to it. Within these bars there is also a slightly older audience, but in the end it appeals to people who are concerned with the search for a relationship or the absolute truth in love."
Finally, are you in a relationship today?
Ronnie: "Yes, but we've been working on the work for a long time, and we've gone through waves and changes in that as well."
Naama: "During the process, I went through a difficult separation. I came out of a long relationship of 5 years. The research and experimentation within the work helped me understand and perhaps also shake up and stay in the midst of uncertainty."
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