Habima's THIRD GENERATION Won Best Performance in Kontrapunkt Festival

Judging committee of Poland's renowned Kontrapunkt Festival has chosen "Third Generation" as this year's Best Performance winner. "Third Generation" is a co-production by Habima National Theatre of Israel (Tel Aviv) with the Schaubühne Theatre Of Berlin.

The show was also awarded with Poland's Minister of Culture Award for the best performance "for their creative discourse with the audience about most difficult and acute issues and for pertinence of their theatrical language developing it into art."

"Third Generation" explores the Gordian Knot that characterizes Israeli, German and Palestinian inter-relations. The Show's cast is compiled of actors from these three nations, and directed by Yael Ronnen. The show veers away from competing national founding myths, but rather presents an attempt to comprehend the foundations upon which personal and national identities are based within a particular national context.

The participants come from very different family backgrounds. Some come from families where relatives were born on opposite sides of the divided Germany, or are either Muslim or Christian Palestinians who have Israeli passports and live in Haifa or Tel Aviv, or come from Jewish families with different origins - from Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. As well as discussing the Here and Now, the show focuses on the historical and social events that paved the way for the complex current situation.

Photo Credit: Gerard Alon