Spotlight from Previous and Upcoming Work
Ensemble Work
I am very proud to be a part of two wonderful ensembles - Carmina Israeli Singers Ensemble, a vocal ensemble performing mostly classic-style songs in acappella arrangements in various languages and Panim Ensemble, a creative ensemble of actors making original interactive performance-art events. Most of my current work is done within the frameworks of these fantastic ensembles.
March 2018
On the 3rd and 4th of March Carmina Israeli Singers Ensemble performed a special creation called "closeness". It is a multi-sensual evening revolving sound. We performed at the Tel Aviv university and collaborated with the light designer Dan Glezer in order to make this a reality.
On the 12th March Panim Ensemble performed our piece "Nimlul" in the ancient Solomon Cave in Jerusalem as part of the closing event of Jerusalem Arts Festival 2018. The place was an incredible fit for Nimlul and infused so much into the piece - it was fantastic!
On the 21st of March Carmina Singers Ensemble participated for the first time out of many in the "Musical Campus" series of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At this concert we closed, singing 5 songs.
December 2017
Carmina performed a Hannukha-Christmas short concert on the 14th December as part of the Messaia's community's Hannukha party in their church at the old city in Jerusalem. We sang the same concert on the 25th December, Christmas day in Jaffa's Emmanuel church.
Panim Ensemble shared a meeting and rendezvous ceremony on the 14th and 15th December evenings in Tel Aviv's Neve Sha'anan neighbourhood, as part of the Nightlight TLV festival.
January - April 2017
I appeared about twice a month in the fringe production of Caresses by Sergi Belbel at The Cube Theatre in Tel Aviv LGBT Community Centre. The production was directed by Arye Eldar and was comprised of "ten scenes and an epilogue" portraying failed relationships of characters longing for closeness and intimacy but experiencing anything but these.
December 2016
As part of the Vox Feminea festival, celebrating female artists, Carmina performed a vocal constellation at the Ramat-Gan Museum in Israel. It was a collaboration with the phonetic singer and voice artist Anat Pick and included recitation of a poem as a talking choir, a work with improvised overlapping personal monologues, a vocal "waterfall" using counting, vocal improvisation utilising repetition and more.
July-August 2016
The same monologue I've translated and expanded into "Lie the Truth" (see the April-June paragraph) was appearing in Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of a show I made with my friends from East15: "Lies. All Lies."
The show is a combination of several seemingly unrelated scenes in variety of styles from monologues through physical theatre to slam poetry. It showed between the 4th through the 19th August every night and was FREE for all!
We also had a one-time London preview at the Drayton Arms Theatre on the 25th July.
April-June 2016
I premiered my own show "Lie The Truth" in Israel on 18th April in Tzavta theatre in Tel Aviv. It is a one-man show I've developed from my original monologue by the same title which I wrote and perform as my final project in my training at East15 Acting School. To see all about the show please visit the show's website (in Hebrew, as is the show itself).
On 2nd June I performed the same show at "The Studio" theatre in Beit Hecht in Haifa.
Thank you very much to all who came and saw the show on etither occasions.
January, February and March 2016
March 15th, 22nd-24th and April 1st-2nd - I played in Julia Hinson's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "The Skull", at the Drayton Arms Theatre. In a grim society a group of rebels plan to use a time machine to alter their reality and influence the values their society is built upon.
> Review by London City Nights (click for the review): "Itai Leigh is a cut above, binding together a time traveller's snootiness, egotism and confidence that's undercut by the growing realisation of his destiny, aided by an Israeli accent that nicely conveys Conger's future dialect."
> "very competent actor playing the lead role", Helen & Bill Maddison, The Audience Club.
Feb 16th-20th - I appeared as Father Flynn in Sunan Gu's exciting production of Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley), which showed at the Theatro Technis theatre. The play explores individual perceptions as limitations to our ability to help or communicate with others, and uncertainty as the threshold of personal growth.
Jan 27th - I played in "Den Preis zahlen", an original play by Andy Barton and directed by him, produced by Synchron Productions. The play incorporates excerpts from the Nuremberg Trials and will be shown as part of Basildon Council's event for the Holocaust Memorial Day. The play was recieved very well and was appropriately effective in the event for the audience.
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