Something worth lingering over | Arabic Shaminet

Micro-dosing: Theater in Small Bites
Two works on one stage

Something Worth Lingering On | عرب شمينت (Arab Shamenet)

Something Worth Lingering On / Ofri Fox

It has been almost ten years since I managed to define what kind of sexual harassment I experienced.

If he didn’t touch me, is it still considered harassment?

I call it "gray" harassment. I started with that term because all other labels felt too pressing or restrictive for me. I thought "gray" was broad and non-binding, and this continued as this grayness swallowed me into a blurred, undefined, ambiguous world—a world of uncertainty, a world of question marks. And questions are incredibly confusing!

In days when everything is translated into black or white, I choose to dwell on the gray.

There is the blurred boundary that sometimes needs to be erased, moved forward, and widened; versus the blurred boundary that signals I have reached my limit, which is important to color black because it protects me, and I need to protect it.

Ofri at age 23 and Ofri at age 32 meet on stage and continue asking questions about this shade—the gray.

Artistic direction and acting: Nedav Bashem

Arab Shamenet (عرب شمينت)

Firas, a young actor and graduate of the Studio for Acting, in an intimate, open one-on-one interview where he removes his masks and tells his story for the first time. From childhood in Nazareth, through nursing studies in Jenin, to acting studies at Nisan Na’ativ, where he discovered that the stage can be both a place of freedom and painful exposure.

A personal, unapologetic performance where the boundary between interview and theater blurs, and the truth bursts out raw, sharp, funny, and moving.

Creator and performer: Firas Mondar

Dramaturgy and direction: Nedav Bashem

Sound and video editing: Nissim Shashon