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"Jaffa's port is still under construction - a tangle of sand, wood and cement - but anyone willing to venture a few steps into the darkness there will quickly come upon the Nalaga'at (Do Touch) Center, where being different engenders a feeling of community and a new reality takes shape every day. The spacious center, with its elegant, clean design, encompasses a theater, a cafe and a restaurant, and has already attracted over 70,000 visitors in its first year. It is a place that everyone should visit once, in order to discover that once is not enough: One cannot remain unmoved by this experience."
(Haaretz, Ayelet Dekel, 20.11.08)
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"Deaf, blind and staging revolution.
Welcome to the remarkable Israeli arts centre whose deaf- blind performers wow the crowds, and where waiters cannot see or here."
(THEJC.COM, Michal Levertov, 21.12.07)
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“This is theater at its most pure, the kind of theater that may have happened before man became verbal, before artifice became art, before it accreted ritual or the "willing suspension of disbelief."
During the kneading, shaping, rising and baking of bread, the 11 deaf and blind actors of Nalaga'at play their pain, dreams and fantasies for the audience they cannot see or hear, and whose applause they sense because their guides/translators pat their shoulders.
Some talk, some do not, but all are eloquent because all speak the truth of their heartsThey move assuredly about the stage, they are comfortable with their actions, they communicate with the audience, they perform. They are professional. They are also infinitely moving because they so infinitely believe.
Each of the cast offers unique moments, but among them Batsheva Rabanseri's graceful body language and Mark Yaroski's clowning stand out. “
(Jerusalem Post, Helen Kaye, 24.6.08)
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"Miracles on stage for deaf- blind actors.
Imagine the simple pleasure of listening to radio or TV or conversing with family or friends is something you can only dream about, a fantasy that could never be fulfilled.
Moreover, imagine living in total darkness, in perfect silence, when your only contact with the world is by touch.
Na lagaat in Hebrew means "please touch," and basically this is what these special deaf and blind actors ask us to do in order to communicate with them."
(Israel News, Sima Borkovski)
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"Blind and deaf actors take center stage at Jaffa theater"
(Haaretz.com, Reuters, 5.2.08) |
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"Theater That Touches"
(The Jewish Daily Forward, Daniel Savery, 11.3.09) |
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