Something Worth Dwelling On + عرب شمينت Arab Shamenet

Two short, sharp, incisive works about identity and boundaries.

— Something Worth Dwelling On · Ofri Fuchs —

For almost ten years now I haven't been able to define what kind of sexual harassment I went through. And if he didn't touch me, does it still count as harassment? 'Gray' harassment, I call it. It started that way because every other term put too much pressure on me. I thought 'gray' was general and non-committal — and it went on from there, this gray swallowing me into a blurred world, undefined, not clear-cut, a world of uncertainty, a world of question marks. And questions are a confusing thing, damn it! On days when everything gets translated into black or white, I choose to deal in gray. The faded border that sometimes needs erasing, pushed one more step and widened — versus the faded border that marks where I've reached my limit, the one that needs to be painted black, because it protects me, and I need to protect it. 23-year-old Ofri and 32-year-old Ofri meet on stage and keep asking the questions about this shade — gray.

— عرب شمينت Arab Shamenet · Firas Munder —

Firas, a young actor and graduate of the acting studio, in a personal, exposed one-on-one interview in which he removes the masks and tells his story for the first time. From his childhood in Nazareth, through nursing studies in Jenin, to acting studies at Nissan Nativ, where he discovered that the stage can be both a place of freedom and of painful exposure. A personal, unapologetic performance in which the line between interview and theater blurs, and the truth bursts out raw, sharp, funny, and moving.