Deborah Leiser-Moore
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The Cool Room

The Cool Room

Nominated for Green Room Award

The Cool Room is a powerful, sophisticated work, extremely well acted and directed 
The Age                                                                                                  

Directed with intensity and precision by Deborah Leiser-Moore, Gabrielovich’s play The Cool Room is disturbing, surreal and darkly comic.   
Melbourne Times                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Leiser-Moore finds a physical language for the performers that choreographs the moral twists in an increasingly claustrophobic space .
Real Time Magazine                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Leiser-Moore brought intuition and an innovative physicality to the piece 
Sydney Morning Herald


Performed at:

2002
La Mama Theatre, Melbourne

2003
Belvoir St Theatre Sydney 

as part of Carnival Festival

2003
Union Theatre, Melbourne University 


Nominated for a Green Room Award 
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‘A terrorist sits in a café, the waiter comes to him and asks ‘would you like anything else?’
The terrorist rubs his belly and says, ‘oh no, I’m just about ready to explode…’

In a Mediterranean restaurant in Melbourne, the door of a meat cool room slams shut. Locked inside are two chefs. One Israeli. One Lebanese. Neighbours. Enemies. A shared history. As they slowly freeze the meat carcasses become animated and like an ancient Greek chorus challenge, direct and confront the two men by becoming witnesses, victims, and perpetrators. While their body temperature drops and the two men are literally freezing to death, they are forced to confront the voice of the other. A voice they never heard. Questions they have never asked or been asked. Haunted by
their past. Can they forgive? Can they overcome their fear of the other.


The Cool Room is dynamic, physical and provocative theatre. The situation leads the characters to reveal their hidden thoughts of each other. Working side by side but never allowing their suspicions or mistrust to surface, they are finally free to speak the unspoken in this often humorous yet confronting exchange.

Directed/Dramaturgy by: Deborah Leiser-Moore
Written by: Sivan Gabrielovich
Lighting Design: Nicolas Pijanti 

Performed by:
Matt Crosby, Majid Shokor, Rodney Afif, Karen Therese, Alex Ben Mayor and Dinos Tsetonis

PRESS:
The Age 
Sydney Morning Herald

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