Woman in the Dunes - Zero Theater

Direction, Stage Design, and Choreography: Oleg Rodovilskiy, Marina Belyavtseva
Costumes: Polina Adamova
Music: Mikhail Gluzman
Lighting: Oleg Rodovilskiy, Ziv Voloshin

The Israeli theater Zero will once again present its first production — the play "Woman in the Dunes." On May 11, 2003, in Tel Aviv, premiered a performance based on the novel of the same name by K. Abe. This day can be considered the birth of the theater "ZERO," which was founded by Oleg Rodovilskiy and Marina Belyavtseva, with "Woman in the Dunes" as its first creation, a foundational work for the theater where the creative style and theatrical language characteristic of "ZERO" were manifested. The play, based on the work of the famous Japanese novelist, received rave reviews from true theater lovers and literature connoisseurs, garnered a heap of laudatory articles and festival prizes, and returned victorious from the international festival "LUDI": the esteemed jury, chaired by L. E. Heifets, awarded this work a prize for best direction! In 2019, it participated in a festival of the best Russian-language theaters of the world on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater! Audiences in Canada and Germany, Denmark and Hungary, Lithuania and Uzbekistan, Belarus and Ukraine, Russia and Moldova applauded "Woman in the Dunes." The large, heavy, "viscous" novel by the Japanese classic, not very stage-like, is filled with the author's reflections and long internal monologues. From this philosophical work, the directors created a simple and touching performance… The production is delicately and precisely made, lovingly and carefully in all details (not coincidentally, by the way, that at the Israeli experimental theater competition it received a prize in such a specific category as "For the work of a lighting designer").
“…In the adaptation by Oleg Rodovilskiy and Marina Belyavtseva, Kobo Abe's philosophical novel turns into a story of two — a mystical, strange, touching love story in a mysterious setting…” (From the press)