Khashabi Theatre: MILK مِلْك
Come face to face with the rippling, time-warping aftermath of disaster, in this piece of visual theatre by the independent Palestinian company Khashabi Theatre.
This performance is concerned with a disaster. Not with its causes, nor its consequences, but with how it divides time in two – before and after – and rifts the two apart, turning time into something with no duration or end.
The past becomes the present, and the future loses all meaning other than endless repetition. Inside this rift, on a patch of black ground which at first appears safe, a group of women is looking everywhere for their lost motherhood.
Young director Bashar Murkus asks how a disaster happens in an instant. How does it end? It never does.
A visual performance by Bashar Murkus, Khulood Basel and Khashabi Ensemble, Palestine. Presented in collaboration with Shubbak Festival.
Need to know
This event uses haze and smoke.
A post-show talk takes place in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall after the performance on Saturday 24 May.
Visualized and directed by: Bashar Murkus
Produced by: Khashabi Theatre – Khulood Basel 2022
Scenography: Majdala Khoury
Original music by: Raymond Haddad
Dramaturgy: Khulood Basel
Light design and technical direction: Muaz Al Jubeh
With: Salwa Nakkara, Reem Talhami, Shaden Kanboura, Samaa Wakim, Firielle Al Jubeh, Samera Kadry, Eddie Dow
Director’s assistant: Abed Al Jubeh
Designer’s assistant: Nancy Mkaabal
Stage manager: Reema Assaf
Co-producers: Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre des 13 vents Centre dramatique national de Montpellier, Théâtre de Liège, Romaeuropa Festival, Palestinian National Theatre El Hakawati (Jerusalem), Culture Resource,Théâtre Jean-Vilar (Vitry-sur-Seine), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels), Compagnie Théâtre Alibi – Fabrique de Théâtre (Bastia
Presented in collaboration with the Southbank Centre. Generously supported by British Council, Galilee Foundation and Arts Council England.
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