MILK

A visual performance By Bashar Murkus and Khashabi  Ensemble
In MILK we are concerned with a disaster. Not with the causes of its occurrence, neither with its type 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 nor end. Past becomes present, and future loses all meaning other than endless repetition.

 

Inside this rift,  on a black ground which at first appears safe, a group of women is looking everywhere for their lost motherhood.  

 

How does  a disaster happen? in an instant. How does it end? It never does.

This is Milk, a visual performance of post-disaster aesthetics.

 Conceived and directed by Bashar Murkus
 Produced by Khulood Basel - Khashabi Theatre 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

 

Special Props Design: Khaled Muhtaseb 

Director Assistant: Abed Al Jubeh 

Designer Assistant: Nancy Mkaabal 

Technical Director Assistant: Moody Kablawi 

Stage Manager: Reema Assaf 

Photos by: Christophe Raynaud de Lage, Eid Adawi, Khulood Basel 

 

Touring: as is presenting arts

 

 

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)