"The Lecture" is a play, a work I created as part of my theater studies at the

"Cuckoo Theater" school. I connected my world as an arts therapist to

the theater world.
 

The main character is Dr. Michal Perry, an international lecturer,

who did her doctorate in arts therapy and its ability to regulate emotions.
 

 The lecture is accompanied by three actresses who constitute a kind of "Greek choir" of the lecture. Their role changes throughout the show, and they serve as doubles

and “ego” helping the lecturer. Throughout the lecture Michal Perry, the correct and eloquent lecturer connects to her personal story. Before our eyes, at times, she loses her ability to control her emotions, so that the audience is exposed to emotional cracks and the gaps between the lecturer / therapist and her personal  wounds.
At a certain point, Michal Perry herself enters a state of anxiety and is assisted by

a movement therapist  on stage which helps her to deal with her rising anxiety.
 

The work operates in two axes:
The first is a lecture, professional theoretical content, which is based mainly on Winnicott's theory - the ability for play and playfulness that builds in parents and subsequently in children's emotional control.
The second, the stories of Dr. Michal Perry personal life.

The work touches the gap that sometimes exists, in the therapist.

Between the personal and the professional lives,

and the turbulent inner experience that sometimes arises in practice.
 

The "lecture" raises issues concerning:

The therapist's experience - a meeting between the treatment room and the

therapist's inner world. The gap between the figure of the therapist and its personal life.The creative therapist - as arts therapists, the importance of being in continuous contact with the creator within us. The power of the creative process as a resource

for processing therapist experiences. Our unique ability as art therapists of processing and learning through creation.

 

The play length is 19 minutes

 

Actresses:

The choir: Noga Ram, Noga Netzer, Revital Ashkenazi

Dr. Michal Perry: Daniela Golbert Wieser

Artistic direction: Gili Ivri and Ayelet Shadmon Ivri