How can the notion of patriarchy be interrogated? This is the vast question tackled by Winter Family. Partners both on stage and in life, Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine create experimental music and documentary theatre pieces. As with their previous production, H2-Hébron, which focused on the Israeli occupation in Palestine, the duo gather a large number of testimonies before presenting them raw on stage. This time, their field of investigation is their own family: a father, a mother, and their 16-year-old daughter.

For two years, Ruth discreetly noted down words spoken by Xavier that, in her view, reflected patriarchal reflexes, in order to highlight the ordinary mechanisms of male domination at work in our daily lives. The piece immerses us bluntly in their apartment-studio before Ruth, as a woman-witch figure, proposes a poetic and non-binary way out of patriarchy. Their daughter, Saralei, acts using the weapons of her own generation.

Dear audience of Bird theatre,

we are deeply honored and excited to come back to present 'Patriarchy, living in eternal lockdown'

this will be our 4th time there, we deeply appreciate and impressed by Mr. Nakashima Makoto and his theatre's crew. the magical village of Shikano is a place we dream to come back to, always.

this coming show is about the systemic banal patriarchy within and couple, we wanted to show the mechanism of patriarchy in our family, a family of artists which isn't different from other families...of course.

we hope that the japanese audience of Tottori we'll find themselves in the show.

we imagine that the debates on the matter in japan might be different but we hope our show will echo in the audience's private life in japan as it did in other places we played in .