Chronofest is an international festival of contemporary theater and performance, organized by the theatrical company Chronotope.
Curated by Ilya Moschitsky and Artem Arsenian
PROGRAMME:
- Sunday 31 May 20:30
“100 men”
“100 Men” is a hybrid video performance where cinema and stage intertwine in a personal exploration of memory, fatherhood, and absence. The artist moves through a series of encounters with unfamiliar men, attempting to approach the figure of a father she has never known. On stage, a treadmill, continuous movement, and projected dialogues with the past transform a private story into a universal reflection on loneliness, loss, and the search for connection.
Our colleague Alexei Kiselev selected this show for the Chronofest program. Here is what he writes about it:
One day Hadas Neumann woke up, turned on her video camera, and went for a walk around Tel Aviv. She didn’t yet know how far that walk would take her. That the footage would become a full film, and the film would become a theater piece in which the protagonist confronts her own tendency to interview strangers on the street — who, for some reason, all turn out to be men old enough to be her father. On screen we will see the film, and on stage — the film’s author herself, engaging with the audience and commenting on what unfolds. The show has already toured several countries and is, for me personally, the most powerful experience of the 2025 Israeli theater showcase.
Language: Hebrew, with English and Armenian subtitles
Duration: 1 hour
Team
- Created and Performed by Hadas Neuman
- Choreography and Dramaturgy: Orian Michaeli
- Cinematography, directing & Video Editing: Hadas Neuman
- Artistic Advisors: Michal Vaknin, Itay Mautner
- Monday 1 June 19:30
Gorky / Tolstoy. Reminiscences
In the performance based on Maxim Gorky’s book “Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy,” staged in the genre of object theatre, Dmitry Volkostrelov shifts the focus from the figure of the Author to things we usually pass by without noticing. What if Tolstoy were remembered by road dust and leaves, ash and poplar fluff? Things that usually remain outside our field of attention, objects we encounter every day without ever considering that they might possess memory — and the ability to articulate it.
If every one of our actions affects them, then perhaps they also have something to tell us. Perhaps we all need to be a little more attentive to what surrounds us.
“I reached out to 23 people who have been and remain important actors in my professional life; many of them I have recently been separated from, and we can no longer work together. But this merging of the voices of people dear to me, speaking on behalf of things and objects that do not seem important, yet actually constitute the very substance of our lives, became the kind of connection that theatre requires in my understanding,” — Dmitry Volkostrelov
Thus, memoirs about a great writer turn into memories of close ones.
Language Russian, with Armenian and English subtitles
Team
Created and performed: Dmitry Volkostrelov
Duration 40 min
NPAK, 2026