What does it mean to go eat?

For the festival, we brought together performing artists from different disciplines, who created and presented their own interpretations of the act of “eating” in an attempt to answer this question.

The medley consists of two pieces:

Waltz in the heart of the forest

On her way to her grandmother’s house, Little Red Riding Hood encounters, as tradition would have it, a hungry wolf in the forest — although not quite the one she expected.

Between fear and curiosity, between unfamiliarity and connection, a space opens up where things happen differently than we imagined.

A puppet performance about courage, boundaries, and a sense of closeness that emerges in the most unexpected place.

Created and performed by: Avital Dvori
Puppet design and sculpting: Ravital Arieli
Music: Canaan Rankanti
Artistic mentorship: Rotem Goldenberg, International Puppet Festival 2026, Train Theater

Oh My, Ahar'le!

“Lioness,” Ahar’le’s mother and a character in her own right — some say she is the best cook in the forest — invites the audience into her kitchen to prepare the perfect lion’s breakfast.

With Esther Goldschmid’s captivating performance and a little twist in the story: the kitchen exists in all our imaginations, while the sounds of cooking are created live by Didi Shahar, playing the “maestro” and conducting a one-man orchestra of sounds.

Behind the lion who loved strawberries is a mother who spent the whole morning cooking a hearty lion’s breakfast — in a comic performance combining acting, mime, and human Foley.

Created by: Esther Goldschmid
Developed through: The Kaleidoscope Program, Train Theater
Performed by: Esther Goldschmid, Didi Shahar
Human Foley: Didi Shahar