

Ben Gvir Reads Wiesel To Mourners
or A Play About Empathy During A Time Of War
GUY GUNARATNE & HORSE Performance Co.
TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2025 19.00 AT ATALANTE – TICKETS HERE
Israel is at war. Itamar Ben Gvir, the controversial far-right member of the Israeli Knesset appears before a group of mourners to read Elie Wiesel's memoir 'Night'. During the course of the evening, Ben Gvir is interrupted by those wanting to share stories of grief and injustice, as well as another writer who dares speak of empathy at a time of war.
Guy Gunaratne FRSL is a British novelist, playwright and cross-disciplinary artist. Their novels have been awarded several prestigious prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Their writing has been described as both provocative and lyrical, often examining issues of race and class while confronting uncomfortable truths. Gunaratne is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Jhalak Review and is one half of the contemporary art partnership alongside artist Mahtab Hussain known as Hussain & Gunaratne.
HORSE Performance Co. is an international theatre practice comprised of Stephanie Hayes (Sweden), Emily Reilly (UK) and A.Z. Kelsey (USA). Their multi-disciplinary stage work relates the grand and monumental to the tiny and banal, employing a diversity of vocabularies from Pina Bausch to Adrienne Kennedy to Anton Chekhov. Pieces by HORSE have shown at Mabou Mines in New York City, the Amsterdam International Fringe Festival, and at Inkonst in Malmö, Sweden, where the company runs a works-in-progress salon for stage artists from all backgrounds. HORSE is currently at work on a trilogy of participatory performances surrounding themes of loss, liturgy and transcendence. The first instalment in the series, entitled The Meeting, will tour Europe and the UK in 2025-26. All three company members of HORSE hold MFA’s from the Yale School of Drama.
Hussain & Gunaratne is a creative partnership between Mahtab Hussain and Guy Gunaratne, known for their incisive critique of representation, politics and memory. Working across visual art, literature, film and installation, Hussain & Gunaratne create work rooted in diasporic experience and the aesthetics of opacity.
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