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In our turbulent times, when reality seems to unravel around us, we seek the hidden thread that might restore meaning—an inner truth that can bring order to chaos, and hope to despair.
Inside the former National Library of Jerusalem, now emptied of its books and readers, we invite the audience to embark on a journey into a secret universe. The library, stripped of its original function, becomes something else entirely: a living organism, a mystical site of endless rituals, inhabited by characters who search, worship, and remember. They are guardians of fragments, wanderers of memory, keepers of a truth that has not yet been found.
The audience moves freely through this space, discovering scattered scenes, whispered voices, flickers of text, and portals into other realities. Projections, soundscapes, live music and physical performance create a layered, shifting atmosphere. Books are no longer read—they breathe, they speak, they remember.
Can we discover the truth hidden in the silence between the notes of a melody, or in the pauses between a dancer’s movements?
Inspired by Borges’ The Aleph and Meister Eckhart’s mystical writings, the performance asks: where is the place where the Word is spoken? Is it hidden in the walls of this place, in the silence between thoughts, or in the secret part of the soul that listens?
“There is one Word, which is the beginning of all things.” That word exists not on the page, but within us—in the soul’s most silent, most sacred ground.
In this performance, the audience becomes both seeker and witness. The space transforms as they move through it, revealing not a fixed narrative, but a living labyrinth of memory, loss, longing, and ritual.
In this library without books, the audience is writing the story anew in every step, every whisper.
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