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.