After the success of our first PAF Connects event in Abbey Theatre for Emma, and with First Fortnight’s Declan’s Got Talent, we are pleased to announce our next PAF Connects is taking place on 25 February to see MILK مِلْك.
For just €20, you’ll receive a ticket to MILK مِلْك, delicious refreshments and a drink at our pre-show networking session. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow practitioners, share ideas, and strengthen your ties within the arts community.
At the core of the Performing Arts Forum is our commitment to connection—building relationships, strengthening bonds, and fostering a true sense of community within the arts. Sharing the experience of live performance is a vital part of this connection.
The networking event starts at 6.30pm and the performance is at 7.30pm. Tickets are only valid for MILK مِلْك on 25 February. We are unable to offer refunds or change tickets for another date.
We’re expecting this allocation to sell out, so early booking advised.
More on MILK مِلْك
MILK مِلْك, a powerful visual theatre experience by Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel – Khashabi Theatre / Palestine, that explores how humanity copes with disaster, and who and what are left in its aftermath. This powerful and determined presentation, a performance described as a visual poem, is not to be missed. It will have a highly limited run on the Abbey Stage from Thursday, 20 February – Saturday, 1 March.
Premiering in Palestine in 2022, MILK مِلْك is 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. 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.
Since 2011 Bashar Murkus, a playwright and director, and Khulood Basel, a creative producer and dramaturge, have worked together in combining artistic vision and independent political production thinking. The duo creates original theatrical works by delving into long-term theatrical research paths, driven by a desire to raise questions about important human and political themes to audiences in Palestine and the world.
Basel and Murkus manage the Khashabi Theatre in Haifa, which they co-founded with a group of Palestinian theatre makers. The theatre is an independent Palestinian theatre that works towards a society that freely practices art and creativity as a natural right, and strives to renew its cultural identity by placing independent culture front and centre. It is a space that challenges societal, political, and artistic taboos and forms a renewed state of art that depends on cooperation and mutual support.
