“Turn Around & Come Back” is an absurd journey into the fabric of life in Jordan. Between identity, borders and the dream of salvation, laughter blends into the bitterness of life’s big questions. The satirical performance uses vibrant visuals and music to confront our ideas of self and belonging.
Through the lens of Ibn Battuta’s life and travels, this physical theatre piece unfolds as an intimate journey of becoming. Performers meet, influence and transform one another, with each encounter leaving a trace on the next. Questions of identity, purpose and belonging reveal how we discover ourselves through others.
Through a performance language that blends theater, movement, and Palestinian folklore, the production reimagines the journey as a movement between past and present, where the story is not told only through words, but embodied through movement and performance. The adventure becomes a living question about place, identity, belonging, and the meaning of travel in a […]
A theater director returns from exile to create a new theatrical performance with a local theater troupe. Inspired by the journeys of Ibn Battuta, they seek to go beyond geographical borders — not merely as a means of travel, but as a way of exploring the Syrian experience between the documented past and a present […]
Does it matter… Whether you memorise or understand? Whether you grow older or mature? Whether you flee or are displaced? Whether you’re a migrant or a refugee? Whether you’re faithful or sectarian? Whether you’re patriotic or racist? Whether you voice your opinion or vote?