The Performative Utterance “I”: Theatricality and Subversion of Identity in the Works of Eyal Weiser

Israeli playwright and director Eyal Weiser challenges the language of performance by creating fictional performance artists who respond to real events in Israel. By reintroducing fiction and theatricality into the autobiographical mode of performance art, Weiser destabilizes a coherent sense of identity and underscores some of the complex issues of history and identity facing Israeli society.