The wife of a saw on the Internet that the other is Jewish. And so, he who wants to impress the woman carrying him reliable information, taken directly from a true and here at hand a Jew, trying to understand what it is to be Jewish. It is this gesture of curiosity and mutual distrust of My Neighbor’s Jewish , French part Jean-Claude Grumberg, directed by Beatriz Batarda and played by Bruno Nogueira (the non-Jewish, at least initially ) and Miguel Guilherme (the Jew who tries to hide that is, at least initially), on stage at the Casino Estoril from Wednesday.
Grumberg was born in Paris in 1939 four years before his father and his grandfather were sent to Auschwitz, where he died. Author of this comedy of errors (on the other), Grumberg “has more legitimacy than anyone else to play with it,” says Bruno Nogueira. And the issue that revolves around what it means to be Jewish (both for the one who is, as for others who have no idea) and, more broadly, how prejudices are steeped in everyday life, outlines us constant meetings between two neighbors to the door of the building.
Using a valuable tool mood to reduce prejudice the absurd, dir would be that this is a basic lesson of “Judaism for geeks” thanks to questions of a character who wants to know what makes your neighbor a Jew – after all, dedicated a Jew? – And is surprised by the revelation that the neighbor was born in Brittany and not a distant and foreign land. “In this case, I think comedy is very effective because I think the bias in most cases born of the fear of the unknown,” says Bruno Nogueira, adding, however, “sometimes rises even idiocy.”
We and others
By choosing two neighbors to characters, Grumberg immediately puts the emphasis on the idea of proximity misleading. Then the suspicious character of Bruno Nogueira, always with questions and theories pocket of the woman discovers on the Internet, try an approach. But a full approach misconceptions.
That’s the kind of humor that most also like the stage director Beatriz Batarda a “mood in English, more Shakespearean, of disagreements and word games” , says. Was Batarda who, knowing the mutual will of the players returning to join on stage (after Is How It says the Other in 2011), began researching texts for two actors and discovered Pour en Finir avec la Question Juive (text of the original title brought to the scene in France as Etre Pas or ). “This mood is like the tragedies, has many records, and thought this was a mood that fit in them,” said the theater director.
To Beatriz Batarda, this is a text that “serves as a pretext to put a magnifying glass on these need that people have to organize society into two labels – ‘we’ and ‘others’. ” “And the line between the two is very thin, just create a bond with someone other for that other become part of us. Basically, they are all part trying to find a dialogue and try to create a language. “But that is then, because at the beginning, what we are seeing is an angry and defensive man, tired of questioning and being pursued by their Jewish, and another that parrots loose information collected on the Internet, “influenced by information, the media, the Internet, the fictional blistering of conflicts in the Middle East”.
And this blistering underlines Batarda, there is no properly a movement of approach or understanding. My Neighbor’s Jewish also brings with it an idea that acceptance of the other is more convenient and inducing a healthy coexistence illusion that actually goes so far that never reach the understanding. It is superficially. This is also why there seems to be an almost redemption of character Bruno Nogueira, one that starts by strafing questions and doubts about what being Jewish and walks to his own conversion (and woman) to Judaism, even for find it “an elitist and chic thing to be part of the oldest religion in the world,” describes the stage director.
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