MILK مِلْك

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Abbey Theatre, Thursday 20th February - Saturday 1st March

Having premiered in Palestine in 2022, MILK مِلْك is a powerful visual theatre experience concerned with a disaster. Not with its causes, its type or 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.

Past becomes present and future loses all meaning other than endless repetition. Inside this rift, which at first appears safe, a group of women look everywhere for their lost motherhood. Coming to the Abbey Theatre for eight performances only, this powerful and determined performance, described as a visual poem, is not to be missed.

Discussing this piece of work, Artistic Director Caitríona McLaughlin said: “When I first saw MILK مِلْك at the Festival d’Avignon, it felt like seeing a group of strangers trying to put a world back together. I wanted to programme this theatrical experience for Irish audiences because it says so much about the impact of war. When we read the headlines, in our focus on who is fighting, we forget about who gets left behind. Those are often women and children. In the absence of their sons, their brothers, their husbands, this work is a tribute to lost motherhood, to the mothers of the lost, and how they are trying to foster a new world without their children.”

Reflecting on the work, Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel commented that: “Three years ago, we thought we had succeeded in MILK مِلْك in creating a “theatrical poem about what wars leave behind.” But over the past three years, as “real wars” have crushed people before our eyes and stolen everything they love, we have come to realise how incapable theatre is of capturing even a single moment of war.”

This project was made possible with support of the Department of Foreign Affairs.


Date:
Thursday 20th February - Saturday 1st March
Time:
7.30pm
Price:
€15 - €49
Address:
Abbey Theatre, Abbey Street Lower, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland

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