Tomorrow night, Kan 11 will air the fourth season of the series "The Unimportants", which presents our history through the small events and forgotten details within them, which today take on a new meaning.
The first part of the series will air tonight, and the second part will air starting this March. The new season of the series, which is accompanied by Dror Keren's narration, will present the wonderful story of Hannah Maron, who on her way to becoming the first lady of Israeli theater, became a heroine of a people when, on her way to audition for a film in London, she was caught up in a terrorist attack in Munich that changed the course of her life. In addition, the story of weightlifter Teddy Kaplan and the story of the Israeli metal band Orphaned Land, which found its fame in the Arab world, and especially in Turkey, will be presented.
"I love this series so much. It is a door that brings us into history and our lives through small and seemingly unimportant events. It's about returning to people through a certain affair, and in fact it's about going back to a whole period, to see what it means socially, culturally," Keren says. "For example, the chapter on Hannah Maron, in which you understand how culture was perceived in the country, what importance it had, what expectation there was of such an actress. The halls were full, and how much hunger and passion for culture there was in the people and also in Hannah herself, and things changed. The hunger for culture and spirit remains, it is eternal. But the depth, the patience for complex materials without black or white, not total escapism, that contain criticism or something that opens up for discussion and debate - something has changed. There is the people and there is the state. Today our lives are only 'together we will win' and 'our strength is in our unity,' but I feel that in practice it is not like that."
Dror Keren with the lead actor award for "One Horse Walks into a Bar", Photo: Coco
Keren participates in "Days A Thousand Times Better", a musical performance that was staged at the Cameri Theater in a quick and moving response to the war, and combines songs and pieces that touch on our harsh reality. "It was a smart decision by my theater to do something in times of shock and paralysis, of wanting to be together and come together, something that met that need very much. And I ask: What part did we play as artists and cultural figures in the situation we have reached? A state of drowsiness, numbness and apathy.
Big shout out
"How can there not be a million people in the streets shouting the shout, saying that a big lie is going on here, that the people who have their hands on the wheel are taking us in terrible directions? I ask myself what my role is these days, and what materials I want to play and what I want to reflect and illuminate."
And what do you answer yourself?
Tartif, for example, is such a material, and soon we will upload it in Camry. I'm also writing something of my own, in the spirit of these days, that I hope will be staged in my theater. We've been through and are going through something terrible, a rolling trauma. In Judaism there is the wise human custom of sitting shiva, gathering together and processing the loss, and something happened to us as people, as a society, as a state, that we do not have time to stop, to process. The wound is bleeding and I'm trying to find words to speak out in the name of what hurts and burns in me."
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