”Dreams of Moses” is a new mystical performance of the Mystorin Theatre , a poetic interpretation the story of the Exodus as a mythological story, revolving around the images of water and birth – the
birth of the hero and the birth of the nation.
The performance looks through the eyes of Moses’ mother, when she dreams the future. Doing so, it supplies us with a feminine view of the Exodus, placing the woman and her inner world in the center. She will always see her son, the redeemer who leads the nation, as a baby in her arms.
With the use of materials, such as silk fabric and flexible tubes, actors draw lines and brush-strokes in space, creating a poetic language in which pictures transform as a painting is hung in the air. Using the simplest means the actors create graphic images translucent and elegant almost as a Japanese ink drawing.
The work of movement creates a stream of consciousness, reminis cent of a hallucination, a dream or a fantasy. Out of this stream, images are born: the angels, the birth, Pharaoh’s daughter and her ser vants, the palace, the Nile, the Pyramids, the Splitting of the Red Sea, the Burning Bush, and so forth. We re-interpret the known Exodus images, and tell a new story about sacrifice, hope and salvation, death and resurrection. Original music was written especially for the performance, combining ethnic and acoustic instruments.