The forbidden fruit is depicted by a couple in a kissing pose, passing an apple from one mouth to the other. Jacob's journey is told in the manner of a Catskills' comic. S.F. Shek saw the theatrical piece in Israel before she left for San Francisco with her husband, Consul Daniel Shek, and said she was blown away by the chic interpretation of traditional biblical stories adapted for the stage by Rina Yerushalmi and directed here by Ronit Rabinowitz. You don't expect to see what you're going to see. You can hardly move.
Performers combine voice, movement, music, mime and dance.
The growing anguish in the story of Cain and Abel is expressed with greater emphasis on the actor's voice than on the words. Performers relating the Genesis version of Creation lie on their stomachs to tell the story. Thespians depict the horror of drowning during the flood with facial expressions and silent gasps. But Shek was determined. I'm very stubborn, I'm Israeli.