Theatrical reading "My Red Nose" (in Russian with English subtitles)

Date: 20.2.2025 od 19:00

A reading of Ilya Domanov's documentary play: MY RED NOSE

 

The Theatre Malenky (Tel Aviv, Israel) presents:

    "MY RED NOSE"

This play was written during the war, in July 2024.

Is it possible now to write and stage plays about what happened on October 7, or should we wait until the war is over, everything calms down and we start to forget? How can you express your feelings when you are at the epicenter of the action, in a situation where you are receiving the wounded at Barzilai Hospital, while the hospital itself is still being shelled with rockets?

What if one of those working in the hospital is a clown? Yes, there is such a specialty as "medical clown".

Here's what playwright Ilya Domanov has to say about it:

"I wrote a documentary play 'My Red Nose' about the first weeks of the war at Barzilai Hospital through the eyes of a clown. For more than ten years, I worked as a medical clown in this hospital, located in Ashkelon, a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip. From the first days of the war, my colleague Agar Hofesh and I worked not only with children, but also with adult patients. It was an intensive care unit, an emergency room, a surgical and therapeutic ward. Those were very intense days for all of us, for the whole country, and the tension and pain are still with us.

During the work on the play, 21 interviews were conducted. These were doctors, medical staff, Barzilai Hospital staff, hospital patients and medical clowns from Russia and Ukraine - my colleagues. The final version contains 7 interviews describing the situation in the first bitter days and weeks of the war.

These are my experiences. I lived them myself. And it was important for me to keep my red nose in place so that I could describe the situation impartially."

The reading will be held in Russian with English subtitles.

Directed by Mikhail Teplitsky

Multimedia - Stanislav Kaplan

The reading will be attended by Ilya Domanov, Marianna Arzumanova, Mikhail Teplickij and actors and directors living in the Czech Republic.

Length of reading: 1.15 minutes.