A captivating musical performance unfolds through a series of interconnected scenes, embarking on a personal journey led by live music. The journey begins in the neighbor’s kitchen and ends in the diaspora. In this performance, we are enchanted by the melodies of the Oud, Electric Guitar, and the rhythms of the neighbor’s kitchen tools.
Guided by the narration and the music, we traverse from one event to another, seamlessly weaving threads of memory, reality, and aspirations. This kitchen and its reigning queen, the neighbor, forge the morals, ethics, and social constructs that limit one’s dreams.
What is the cost of trying and failing? How can our surroundings influence both the attempt and the outcome? What is belonging?
A work By Carlos Gharzuzi
Dramaturg and Artistic Consultant: Siwar Awwad
Live Music: Bakr Khliefe, Mazen Hamdan
Light Design and sound: Mohammed Shaheen, Mtanis Mazzawi
Translation: Reema Addaf
Technical Manager: Moody Kablawi
Production and Stage Manager: Reema Assaf
Production Coordinator: Basel Tannous
Produced by: The House Of Art - Tarshiha
In Arabic with English subtitles
About Organizer
Khashabi is an independent Palestinain theatre in the city of Haifa. It was founded in 2011 as the artists’ collective Khashabe Ensemble. In 2015 the group achieved a physical space in the Wadi Salib neighborhood that was emptied from the majority of its original inhabitants 1948. Khashabi works towards a Palestinian society that freely practices art and creativity as a natural right, and strives to renew its cultural identity by placing independent culture front and centre, and provides a space for artists to freely experiment, create, research and perform alternative forms of theatre and art, and space where social, political and artistic taboos can be challenged, creating an invigorating creative environment based on cooperation and mutual support.
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