Bashar Murkus

A theatrical performance, on stage, that observes how war and states of emergency transform women into material for tragedy. The work presents, in the form of a modern tragedy, women who have lost their children in war and strife. Some are women who are suffering their loss among us today; others are mothers from the past, led by Hecuba, the mythological Trojan queen who lost her 19 children in the Trojan war. Rather than treating a dramatic plot, this project attempts to condense the state of loss in visual dramatic structures shaped by the psychologic and physical impact at the moment a mother loses her son and its sociopolitical repercussions.