Head in the Clouds

Head in the Clouds was my first show produced by the Train Theater right after graduating from the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, inspired in 4 stories written by Eugene Ionesco, some say he wrote for his little daughter. Object theater.For ages4 -6.

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My first show produced by the Train Theater right after graduating from the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. Inspired in 4 stories written by Eugene Ionesco, some say for his little daughter.If I had to draw on paper its structure, I'd draw a flower, with a center and petals. Each petal was a scene of the imaginary trip of the young Josette, the protagonist, looking for her  hiding father.The center is the reality of her parents' bedroom where Josette's tired father manages to both sleep and play by pretending he is far away someplace and sending Josette to look for him.Thus the show moves from petal to center to petal back to center etc.From the city to the bedroom to the sea ,back to bedroom, to the zoo, the moon.... Theoretically it could go on as long as I added scenes.As Josette creates the landscapes of her imaginary play she increasingly disorders the room.Finally her mother comes back to a messy bedroom, a sleeping father and a tired but happy daughter.

The show is Object Theater with shoes, sheets, umbrella,pillows, gloves etc transforming into whatever prop or character the protagonist wants.From its creation in 1989 until 2003 I worked with Alan Whinston who created and played live the music for the show. He had as well an Object Orchestra I'd call it, a table full of sound-making toys and instruments which he played.His music was integrated to the action in such a way that each character was not only characterized by a voice, movement,object etc but by a musical sentence that Alan gave it.

The show was a big success for many, many years, both in israel ad the countries abroad where we performed such as Mexico,Spain and Germany.

Eventually Alan got tired, left the show and it went into dormition for many years until I revived it with the music of Yarden Erez.His music was more melodic and got recorded. It gave more space for acting at the pace I wanted  since I was not coordinating my actions with the live music ( Alan was NOT an improviser), but the absence of Alan's playful toy-like orchestra which so fitted so much the concept of the girl playing in her imaginary world was felt. The new version never picked up and eventually the show ended its long stage life.