Three performers conjure scenes and states of personal and collective grief drawing from cultural rituals from Bangladesh, Egypt and Turkey – a suitcase carrying ancestral soil, holding memories, forgotten histories and objects of life, death and displacement. Countless lists of names written and read aloud, keeping record and remembering through the noise, as well as a bodily search through dust and rubble. Repetition in all three scenes focus on suspending time, gestures of endurance, and giving presence to grief.
The project was developed in London as a part of the residency and performance programme, Haramacy, which brings together storytelling and multimedia to celebrate outsider narratives.
