One Day: What is it all about?
Audience and performers, together on stage for 24 hours

In one day our lives changed forever. One day, life here will be different. (Over the course of) one day, we will all meet on the main stage.

It took one day to change us all: our mental state, our worldviews, our topics of conversation, the actions we do each day. It will take much more than one day to restore our confidence, our pain and our fears. For now, for one day we will all meet on the main stage of the Jerusalem Theater –  audience together with performers: musicians, actors, dancers, speakers, and more. For about 24 hours we’ll be together, without the traditional separation between audience and stage, between viewer and performer. We will examine the places where togetherness is a source of strength, and the moments when it is a thin mask that hides divisions.

One day will be divided into a number of segments throughout the day. 

One Day: Sunset

Bright Future | Alit Kreiz and Ayelet Golan

These last months have left us speechless. Many questions continue to fill our lives. Concrete questions, essential questions, everyday questions, open-ended questions, unanswered questions. Alit Kreiz and Ayelet Golan have gathered a diverse group of teenage boys and girls: For several months, they’ve worked together on the act of questioning, on the ability to doubt, on the power of the question mark. "Bright Future" is a performative ceremony in which 55 young men and women from different places and backgrounds in Israel ask questions. Little by little, the questions are collected and piled up, continuing to resonate inside us long after.

Soundtrack of Now | Dana Ivgy and Alex Farfuri

For a few short minutes, actress and musician Dana Ivgy will take the stage. She will sit down at the piano (accompanied by some friends) and perform two songs from our past that shake the present. This performance is in collaboration with photographer Alex Farfuri whose whose sensitive eye (and heart) captures the essence of Israel, here and now. Whether at demonstrations, at the beach, in shopping malls or just wandering the streets, Alex shines a spotlight on what exists, but is hidden from the eyes of most of us.

Going Into Treatment | Adi Helman, Dana Modan, Yuval Plotkin, Tal Avraham

Welcome to "Going Into Treatment" – a series of underground stand-up evenings that gives a platform to the ego, the id and the superego. In the format of a therapy session, three great writers/stand-up artists will come up, remove their defense mechanisms, and delve deep. In between, the therapist will make comments, offer new directions, and mostly nod.

With (out) You | Noga Friedman, Daniel Salomon, and the Great Gehenna Choir

October 7th invaded Noga Friedman’s life, and changed it entirely. She received the title of "widow". Over these last months, Noga has shared her struggles openly with the public. She combines sharp writing, critical vision, heart-wrenching comics, music and singing in order to continue living. Especially for "One Day" Noga has joined paths together with Daniel Salomon and with the Great Gehenna Choir, for a one of a kind performance. Noga’s words and crumbling honesty meet the artistic practice of the choir for a work that will light up, and fade away.

The Great Gehenna Choir is an artistic collective founded in Jerusalem in 2015 as an alternative to the concept of a traditional "choir", where the choir members work and create together collaboratively. Choir members come from varied backgrounds; some are classical singers, some composers, singer-creators, musicians, or interdisciplinary artists. The choir’s works take shape from rehearsal to rehearsal, echoing the relationship between the personal and the collective.