The Yashchin Company (TYC)                                                                                

Finally, after 8 years of digging the soil and planting the seeds i am opening the doors for a home to be born and for the flowers to blossom.I was waiting for this moment for a long time and will welcome this home with a true grand celebration.
I am a Lithuanian born, raised in Isreal, Australian Theater Creator.

As Antigone says to Creon in Antigone by Sophocles:

"Yet never forget the possible difference
Of that other world of the gods.
Thinking of defference there
May make us different here.
Creon,you fear the thought of difference"

For me The Yashchin Theatre Company is a symbol of triumph. It is time with your support to do different theater and to do theater in a different way. 
The theater would like to offer a new perspective, gain a voice that represents the pain of the emmotionaly displaced. Australia is a multicultural country. we would like to reach and strech and drag audiences out of their homes to promote a stronger sense of IDENTITY for the people living here so that we could have a deeper sense of community and better communication. 

To create life on stage, one that is completely different from reality, but true and with its own laws. to percive the people, to grasp the perspective. the most important thing in the art of theatre is IMAGINATION-not the idea of how to put together one or another scene, but imagination. it makes possible for the theatre to be born anywhere.
the theatre must feel like a feast for the viwer, where he can savour the satisfaction of meaning, but at the same time-remember the impermanenec of it and that it will come to an end.

My aim and ambition is to have a fulfilling artsitic life in SA, with a supportive team of passionate, raw, dynamic, courageous, spontaneous, enthusiastc, creative and wisly-wildely experimental performers.
I wish to promote a quality of engegement and deepen the responssibility that theatre has: to fight against narrow mindednest, isolation, regresion, raisicem, opresion and stagnation.
I had invested massive time and increased effort to develop my sense of familiarity and relationship with this particular landscape and with lots of Artists, actors and dancers in various projects who are now happy to be part of the Yashchin Company’s associate artists.

The Yashchin Company is going to work with Ensemble techniques who sugest an approach, a method and not neseceraly the idea that it is an engagement with the same people all the time. allthoug, i belive that good acting offers transformation and versatility, therfore i will keep using a core of my original Ensemble when able.

I am not interested in theatre that discusses superficial every-day problems. My plays have to speak of the timeless-suffering of the human soul, longing for a home, efforet to resist the all-devouring time and every-day living, and the most important-quest for the meaning in the limitary situations of human life.

I have arrived to Adelaide after a successful and fruitful career starting in 1993 as an Actress for Israel’s most innovative international experimental theater group The Itim Ensemble” . I Had founded The Yashchin Ensemble in October 1998. After less that six months in the country she already had ten actors and a show on the run.I have no family or relatives or any other strong financial background. (The actors and myself had shown immense dedication while working for free for three months every day to build skills and artistic relationship) This show was “Mnemosyne” (inspired by the theme of memory and “the little prince” by …) and was developed over more that two years in three stages (with the support of Arts Sa and the Australia Council) until reaching a memorable event that touched the hearts of many people and is often spoken off even these days. 

The Ensemble amazed the audience with striking images, the versatility of the use of body in space, the actor’s creativity in the use of vocal expression, their willingness for exploration and exposure, honesty, deep diving spiritual and philosophical suggestions. 
The feedback was warm and extremely encouraging coming from people who never went to the theatre and were surprised by the liveliness, ruthlessness and reluctant passion coming from the team. 

We would love to grant this celebration to the viewers and allow this sweet and consolidating secret of creativety to be an invitatiation!

                                   Welcome to The Yashcin's Companies Program:                                                           
                                                         
                                                          Fare well to the circus

                                                                                 A Trilogy
                                                                                                                                                                  with a forth play....

The Yashchin Company is glad to present its program for 2007-2009 with a collage of intriguing work.(see descrption of every year attached plus stuff)

I only came to use the phone / by Gabriel Garcia Marqueze
The gigolo from the Congo / by Hanoch Levin 
Wings of Desire/ Wim Venders and Peter Handeke 

The title name for The Yashchin Company's program is named Fare Well to The Circus". the reason for it is that we wish to relate the four works we are sugesting for the three years to follow in a thematic way. very sequencial, epizodic, popular culture orientd. i see my self very much like a Cheff who is prepering a dish and trys to speek of the ingridience and the way he cooks. i am inspired by the way the "invisible world creeps in", by what moves us from beneeth, the undercurrent conditions that influence and shape the way we move and react. the unspoken, the untold. 
Art is a fight against ignorance and against spiritual death. the value of story telling and validetion through a human beings voice is very important for us.
Maria from " i only came to use the phone" from our oppening play, ends up in a mental hospital. the projections of others regarding her madness eventualy take their toll. in the "madness" world, the masks drop, the roles, the pretence and with it the Circus of societies behavioural habits and rituaels. 
In this very uncertain world with the thret of climate change with "terror" infusion it seems to me only rational to question again my behaviour in the world. this is where "The Gigolo from Congo" is so important. this earthy jurney that swims so lushly, exoticaly and indices us with spice, juice and grace.the humour of the macabre just to let us piss ourselves loughing recovering from the horror of the piece before.(allthoug, i assure you that you would find hounmour in all my work).
from the Gigoloe's visit on planet earth it is nessesery to wander about how we look like from above. Wings of Desire is about angels who watch over Berlin....
The House of Bernarda Alba, has been in my mind for two years now with a developement i had done with Bimbola. this jurney has inspired me to take a mature group of strong Adelaide Actresses and create a show to simply manifest their talent and squeeze it to the max. it is a mans world and i wish to borrow Lorca, who thought the same thing to say it again. it is allso a piece that talkes of the damage past generations inflict on next ones and a great opportunity to learn from past mistakes.mistakes are easy to make but very difficult to undo.

 trilogy will be presented separately but with a potential to create a 4 hour of a experiencial theatrical jurney that weaves them togehter.(in the future...)
Thesee pices are linked in an evolving thred and are dealing with the search of a man for meaning and in the problematic aspects of human existense in vareous dimentions.
Where am i? what am i doing here? what am i doing it for? who am i doing it for? and so on...
this is the inner circus of human life with its rolocoster nature and ever changing realities.

The forth Project to be developed as part of the companies experimental nature is:
The House of Bernarda Alba/ Federico Garcia Lorca

we are looking at works that can reflect on life in Australia in a non literal way.work that is emmotionaly charged, life changing, provokes critical thinking, conflict and challanges the projections that we hold on other cultures. 

With all that work we aim to create an open theatre, inviting, comprehesible and necessary.
We see it as a stepping stone for The Yashchin Company’s new era.

Vision for the future:

The Yashchin Company in the neerer and further future is aimimg to evolve and encourage culture growth. we feel that  the contents of the program we present are relevant to Australien audiences and would like to promote discussion relating to the value of art and the importance of communication through the theatrical world.
We would like to build slowly with a realistic approach and view, a company that would present its work nationaly and internationaly feeding and learning from the existing models of ADT and Leigh Warren and Dancers.
As the artistic director and director for this company i would love to investigate during these three years the nature of my work and mature gaining better and wider orientation and understanding of the unique Australian cultural needs and buisness structures.
i would love to say that, SA needs to be put Theater on a world stage . thats why i have encouraged people from strong Europien backgrounds to work along side with me.(for example, gain the perspective of Yoni Prior x member of Gilgul Theater led by Barry Kosky and the translator of The Gigolo from The Congo)) it is good to be the hostes of "hot" international work and have artists from all over the world come here, but it would be as nice to tour internationaly and be "hot" somewhere else.

the work we are going to do is strongly connected to mental and spiritual health . for it is an antidote for spiritual death and a flower from which its frigrence will reach the meny.

WORKSHOPS

the workshops to be delivered by Netta Yashchin are building twarsd growing Audiences through increasing awareness to need for the art. they would be catering for non artists. people of vareous age groups who would love to come and Act and express their creativity in a safe and supportive enviorement. they would run in KOOROO....