10 | cabaretdirector’snote
Director’s Note WRITTEN BY
OREL COHEN
Tomer Zvulun
As a director, I’m always mindful of my audience. But in Cabaret, the audience is more than a passive observer, it is essential to the storytelling. This is why we chose the immersive environment you are in. The events in this story happened a century away from our current times and the world today is completely different, yet somehow nothing has really changed. The story of Cabaret was conceived by Christopher Isherwood who immortalized his own experiences in interwar Berlin, a city under severe economic distress—but with a spirited nightlife. Not unlike the lost generation in the nearby French Capital, the story of Cabaret has the feel of a huge canvas with seismic events unfolding yet we’re seeing it through intimate portraits of people who don’t quite fit in. Like most everyone, these characters live in pursuit of dreams, love, and rent. But their world is coming unglued, so they come to the Kit Kat Klub for human connection and escape. 100 years on, we know something they don’t know: their only escape is to drop everything and leave Europe.
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