sunday, july 5: 8:45 pm

photo: ADAM'S ZIRKUS

"In ADAM'S ZIRKUS, Lihi Hanoch has rearranged things in her own order. She has integrated life and the theater. She has fashioned an 'alternative reality,' with her diverse, simultaneous and seemingly contradictory use of different aesthetics, including classic documentary, docu-drama, video-clip and minimalist cinema.... The result is a daring, impassioned and wise collage...." -- Adam Baruch, Globs

Just as Israel's remarkable and controversial Gesher Theater is about to begin a series of performances here at Lincoln Center, we present a special screening of Lihi Hanoch's ADAM'S ZIRKUS, featuring actors from the Gesher troupe as well as excerpts from their play Adam Resurrected.

Note: this video is subtitled in English program notes and times

In 1990, a group of Russian Jewish actors leave the impending collapse of the Soviet Union and arrive in israel, just in time for the Gulf War. Fifty years earlier, a group of German Jewish actors from Berlin struggled to stay alive in a Nazi concentration camp. The encounter between these two groups takes place in Tel-Aviv, in a small circus tent on the outskirts of the city; gradually but inexorably, the lines dividing the identities of these two groups become blurred.