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HELNWEIN'S SET AND COSTUMES FOR THE OPERA "THE CHILD DREAMS"Hanna Munitz (Director)The Israeli Opera (Tel Aviv) 2010 |
 | A new Israeli production for the occasion of Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary. "The Child Dreams", is based on the play of Hanoch Levin, the most important Israeli playwrite. Levin's plays have been performed in Germany, France, and many other places all around the world. The Child Dreams is one of the most important, powerful and inspiring plays ever written in Israel. The music is composed by Gil Shohat and directed by Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Cameri Theatre. The coductor is maestro Asher Fisch, the music director of the Israeli Opera. |
| The production will premiere at the beginning of 2010 |
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PROPHETIC DEAD CHILD: "I saw an angel: He was sailing in the sun,diving slowly as if in a sea of honey, and he came down and whispered to me: "Oh little lambs, silent screamers, oh. my tender, impatient dead, a tiny error was made in the inventory and now it's final: one more child." |
| (a silence of disbelief) |
| "That's what he told me. 'Rest just a little more Only one more child." |
| (From "The Child Dreams" by Hanoch Levin, scene 8 (Requiem) |
| Dramatis Personae: |
| THE FATHER THE MOTHER BLEEDING MAN A SHOCKED OBSERVER OF DEATH WOMAN BORN FOR LOVE COMMANDER WAILING WOMAN THE CHILD CROOKED-BLACK SOLDIER OPTIMISTIC NEIGHBOR MAN JEALOUS OF THE LIVING SAILORS A CONSOLING PASSENGER MAN OF REASON EXCITED PASSENGER DEVOUT PASSENGER GUARD LAME YOUTH CLERK TOOTHLESS MAN FEARFUL WOMAN PASSENGER GOVERNOR GOVERNOR'S WIFE CLEVER SAILOR LAZY ONE DEAD CHILDREN PROPHETIC DEAD CHILD SENSITIVE DEAD CHILD ARGUMENTATIVE DEAD CHILD IMPATIENT DEAD CHILD OBSERVING DEAD CHILD "MESSIAH" BRAVE SOLDIER CHILD WHO TURNED TO DUST |
 | Modern Sleep I 2003
99 cm x 300 cm photograph |
| Gottfried Helnwein in einem Gespräch mit Peter Nedoma, dem Direktor der Galerie Rudolfinum in Prag April, 2008: |
| "Die Entdeckung des Theaterstückes "The Child Dreams" von Hanoch Levin war ein Schock und eine Epiphanie für mich, denn noch nie war die künstlerische Arbeit eines anderen so nah an meinen eigenen innersten Bildern. Es ist als hätte er dieses Stück ausschliesslich all den Kindern gewidmet, die bisher in meinem Werk aufgetaucht sind - und all jenen, die noch kommen werden." |
 | Gottfried Helnwein, Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Cameri Theatre Israel and assistant Zeevik "Lupo" Levy 2008
Working on the set for the oprea "The Child Dreams" by Hanoch Levin |
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