MILK / مِلْك
A Visual performance
by Bashar Murkus / Khashabi Theatre
MILK is dealing 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.
Photo by Khulood Basel
Photo by Eid Adawi
Photo by Khulood Basel
Photo by Eid Adawi
Photo by Khulood Basel
“In Milk, we don’t tell one single story, we tell many, many stories. All stories have in common that they have lost their ability to finish. This visual theatre piece is about the struggles that remain forever lingering. They are an actual hell. How does a disaster happen? In an instant. How does it end? It never does.”
Produced by Khulood Basel, Khashabi Theatre 2022
In co-production with 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)
Premiered June 2022, Palestine // 7 participants 80 minutes, No words