About

BaMatMaBat is a Jerusalem based experimental theater for social change founded by DeDe Jacobs Komisar and Talia Weiss in Spring 2007. Since then, Bamat Mabat has put on five critically acclaimed performances, some original pieces and some celebrated plays. Bamat Mabat has also partnered on projects with many local and international organization including Circle of Health International (COHI), Fly butMange Your Family (FLEMAFA), El Halev, Hadassah, Daila, V-Day, and Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center. Bamat Mabat maintains that theater is an ideal mode of education, communication, expression, and therapy. We prepare thought-provoking performances and experimental workshops centered around pressing issues in the selected community (Jerusalem, Israel & Dar es Salaam and Kisarawe, Tanzania to date).

Whether one is a performer or audience member, theater has proven to be a successful method of manifesting one’s vision for effecting societal and personal change.

Objectives

To challenge peoples' beliefs and actions through the transformative power of theater.
To offer a platform for members of society to voice their stories and create dialogue between different communities.
To explore and develop creative work on a variety of issues in an open, experimental framework.
To encourage expression and exploration of communal problems and concerns as well as goals and aspirations through drama.
To create dialogue between different ethnic groups.
To utilize Street Theater as a method for education, especially about sexually transmitted diseases placing a special emphasis on HIV/AIDS prevention.