Here Songs Grow | The Train Theater - By Ruth Hof

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A stylized visual-musical theater performance about numbers, featuring the sounds and stories behind the songs.

How is a song born?

Two poets at the beginning of their careers embark on an inspiring journey through books, following the path of Hebrew poetry. Along the way, they encounter three songs by beloved poets:

• Leah Goldberg looks out the window and sees a white flower that is not from here, remembering how she, too, once came here from a distant place — Pizmon La-Yakinton.
• Ehud Manor writes The Cypress Alone, out of longing for a cypress he saw outside his window as a child.
• Miriam Yalan-Shteklis wanders with a big question—“How do you write about love?”—from which the song Dani Gibor is born.

The performance reveals the creative process and the exciting, painful, and meaningful stages it encompasses.

Credits

• Created by: Ruth Hof
• Cast: Matan Levy and Lior Roy / Netanel Rappaport and Leah Yunger
• Set and Props Design: Keren Dembinsky
• Music: Sharon Gabbay
• Costumes: Yula Igra
• Lighting Design: Netanel Rappaport
• Production: The Train Theater

The performance was created at the initiative of and in collaboration with the National Library of Israel.