A massive concrete block pushes forward on the stage of the Stuttgart Theater, menacing like the bow of a war cruiser. The brutalist monster, built by Katja Haß, can rotate and shows on the long side the shell of a one-story bungalow with nested rooms, unplastered and forbidding – perhaps the building was also bombed out. The war is immediately present in this production, which is set in Israel and begins with an interrogation scene. Libby (Camille Dombrowsky), a soldier in the Israeli army with excellent Arabic skills, has her 968th terror suspect in front of her. Adib (Felix Strobel) was almost liquidated, but it turns out that the Palestinian has a British passport and is only in the country for research purposes. The awkward intellectual is writing a doctoral thesis on the roots of Zionism.
“The Great Wind of Time”: a play by the Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol in Stuttgart – Culture
