What should I do if you are told to keep calm and wait for death to reach your doorstep? This is self -evident premise Knock on the doorThe latest work of the New York Theater Seminar written and performed by Khawla Ibraheem.
Mariam is the core of this single women’s show. It is an irritable mother. The dishes are accumulated in the sink and exhausted due to the endless problem of son Nour. Like women around the world, most of her parenting and family responsibilities are bound, and her husband Omar is studying a master’s degree abroad. But Mariam is not only anywhere, she is in Gaza. There, when the son heard the news that the Israeli National Defense Force was sending troops to the Gaza border, her son and her friends were innocently attracted alarm with her friends on the beach. The war is coming.
When she survives and ensures that her son’s willingness to safety becomes omnipresent, Mariam tells her daily preparation and explained: “You know, before two wars, they started to use a” knock on the door to knock the door door. The technology of the roof “. They dropped a small bomb to remind us that we have been evacuated before the actual rocket destroyed the building for five to fifteen minutes.”
She began to train the inevitable “knock on the door”, as if it was an Olympic movement. Mariam packaging and rewing the bag. She set up a timer to test herself: one minute of warning knocking on the door, five minutes, going out, as far as possible. When the first bee twee was extinguished, she dragged her bag, but realized that she was not incorporated into NOR. If she wants to move quickly, she will have to carry him, so she is filled with a pillow box with an object to imitate his weight. Mariam started the timer again. When she was waiting for the alarm, she told herself to take normal behavior. However, of course, it is not normal to bombing your house.
Mariam is anxious to imagine the possible situation. What if you knock on the door and knock on the door? Or should she be on the toilet? Or, when Noor is on the toilet- “This requires his eternal shit!” When she took a bath, her mother scolded her naked. “If the house is bombed while shower, they need to dig us out of the rubble! You must keep covered!” It turns out that preparation for war is not just survival. It also plans its own death and social practice that must be maintained even in death.
The ridiculousness of her situation has never been far away from Mariam. When she found a shelling building in the running distance, she began to uninstall many of the precious property they was there. When the knocks came, the kind of thing she could not carry: expensive skin cream, album album A album, green silk dress, leather shoes, books about samurai and dinosaurs, vitamins. For her reason, the demolished buildings are safer than anywhere.
Once, she was angry, and she asked the invisible enemy:
Why do you need to warn me before killing me?
I hope it has been completed-I hope I can destroy the house myself and complete the job!
I envy those who have been destroyed, at least they know that it will not be destroyed again!
The drama is full of such moments, you don’t know if you laugh or cry. Ibraheem (Ibraheem Even if the single format has a description for her too muchEssence She watched the children on the street playing funeral at the funeral. She dug out an old baby monitor and placed it on the roof of the building. Her husband kept calling, but she never called. Maybe she was angry and he was not helping her to bear the burden. The mediocre nature of family life is familiar, but the conditions they present are strange. If the bet is not so real, it will be very interesting.
This idea Knock on the door It was originally a 10 -minute monologue written by Ibraheem in 2014. Later, she cooperated with director Oliver Butler to develop her work into a full -length drama. It plans to premiere in October 2023 in El-Hakawati (Palestine National Theater in Jerusalem) and Khasabi theater. However, after the event on October 7, the work was canceled. Since then, more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 13,319 children. In addition, 110,000 people were injured, and a quarter of them must deal with the harm of changing life.
Very related and dark comedy, Knock on the door Maybe many of us are the madness of living in the war and Montanos, and survived to tell stories.
Knock on the door | 80 minutes. No midfielder rest. | New York Theater Seminar | No. 79 East 49th Street | 212-780-9037 | | Buy tickets here
