Not by Bread Alone at the artsdepot, London N12
July 8 2010, 4:39pm, The Times
Adina Tal, the artistic director of Nalaga'at (Do Touch), is an inspiring individual. A mainstream theatre practitioner, she formed the groundbreaking Israeli deaf-blind company after a series of workshops 10 years ago, and claims it has changed lives — her own, as well as those of its on and offstage members. Her passion, evident in a post-show speech she gave at the performance I attended, was powerfully persuasive; more so, sadly, than the production, which premiered in Israel in 2007, now in the UK as part of Lift.
An assemblage of the memories, hopes and yearnings that nourish the human spirit, it's set in a bakery, where we discover the cast of 11 kneading dough at a long wooden table, the air pungent with yeast.…