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Right:
A scene from
"Village," per-
formed by Tel
Aviv's Gesher
Theatre.
Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and
Adam Resurrected, based on Yoram
Kaniuk's surreal novel.
In Village, Sobol brings to life a
Palestinian man's lyrical recollections of
his hometown before World War II,
when the British, Jews and Arabs lived
together in relative peace. Amid fore-
shadowing of things to come — World
War II, the Holocaust, the transforma-
tion of Palestine into the State of Israel
— the narrator, Yossi, a simpleton and
the village grave digger, is the link that
binds the characters together.
The Village will be presented July 7-
12 in Hebrew at Alice Tully Hall, with
simultaneous translation into English
by means of headphones.
An enclosed circus tent in New
York's Damrosch Park is the setting for
Gesher Theatre's production of Adam
Resurrected, a surreal, macabre play by
Alexander Chervinsky based on
Kaniuk's novel Adam, Son of Dog. The
outrageous but deeply affecting por-
trayal of the horrors of the Holocaust
features a main character who has his
own little circus. His shtick: he can act
like a dog.
When the Germans deport him to
a concentration camp, he continues to
bark and perform as a dog, eventually
Groin., mad. After suryiyinc, the war,
this circus clown winds up in an
Israeli asylum, whose inmates he
believes are inmates of the camp.
Staged complete with a trapeze,
"animals" and grotesque side shows,
Adam Resurrected will be performed in
Hebrew July 14-15 and 18-19, and in
Russian July 16-17, with simultaneous
translation into English available via
headphones.
"We are particularly proud of the
Gesher being the cornerstone of the
[Lincoln Center] celebration," says
Price. "They are wonderful representa-
tives of what Israeli culture has to
offer, not only in terms of their craft
and skill but in terms of being a truly
modern Israeli artistic group that has
grown out of an immigrant experi-
ence."
On the music front, The Seven
Gates ofJerusalem, Krzysztof
Penderecki's 70-minute musical orato-
rio commissioned by the city of
Jerusalem for its 3,000th anniversary,
will have its world premiere at Lincoln
Center's Avery Fisher Hall on July 17
and 18.
Seven Gates, in seven movements,
employs an orchestra, a narrator, a
100-voice main choir, two 40-voice
antiphonal choirs and soloists.
Penderecki is a prolific composer of