Nurit (Nurit Shahari's Loneliness)

Description:

A documentary play with avant-garde elements that confronts its audience with two contrasting love stories. Through the prism of its main protagonists, Nurit, a Jewish Israeli girl from Haifa, and Gamal, an Israeli Arab, the kaleidoscope of Jewish and Palestinian realities is brought to life with critical intensity. In typical fashion, the author treats his characters as metaphors and individuals at the same time, which enables him to draw a detailed portrait of both societies and analyse the facets and political backgrounds of the merciless conflict that allocates to each of them a preconceived, stigmatised identity, which is broken down by Nurit's and Gamal's love for each other. An indirect style of narration interrupted by trance sequences creates objectivising V-effects and the parallel love story between Aysha and Shadi act as both a contrast and a comment.

subjects: Israeli-Palestinian conflict,  One state solution,  Oslo peace accords,  Rabin,  Palestine,  roots of the Mideast conflict,  alliance for peace

People: Muhammad A. Al Mahdi

Places: Palestine,  Haifa,  Jerusalem,  Jenin

Times: mid-90's,  Palestine,  state of Israel