Shrine

Name: Shrine — Khadija El Kharraz Alami
Start: 2027-01-27T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Theater aan het Spui

Khadija El Kharraz Alami

Wed 27 Jan 20:00

Performance

Wed 27 Jan 2027

20:00

Wed 27 Jan 2027

20:00

Theater aan het Spui, Den Haag

Hall 1

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I acted alone with the protection of my mothers’ mothers, my great-grandmothers and their great-grandmothers carried and protected me. I have shown and made the most powerful in these systems feel and fear me. Now they know how powerful I am, thanks to God.

Which of women’s roles in society that have been erased can we revive, and which buried cries will be heard?

SHRINE is an immersive theater performance about grief, anger, and radical resistance in a capitalist world. The main character, The Daughter, seeks refuge with the Jinns—non-human beings—in a world parallel to our own. Her Mother was brutally murdered by systems perpetuated by people and powers. After years of fighting for a fair trial and justice, she is exhausted. The Jinns welcome her into their SHRINE, where her grief and anger are celebrated and given full space to exist and express themselves without restraint. There is remembrance, prayer, singing, sacrifice, and celebration. Through critical fabulation, El Kharraz Alami speculates on a future that has already begun.

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This performance is spoken in both Dutch and English and features surtitles in both languages

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Credits

concept, text* and directed by Khadija El Kharraz Alami | performance Dahlia Pessemiers Benamar, Lois Lumonga Brochez, Ashley Ho Yuhan and Khadija El Kharraz Alami | performer in research and creation Yasmine Yahiatene | dramaturgy Samah Hijawi | movement coach and outside eye Cherish Menzo | scenography and drawing image Dakota Magdalena Mokhammad | costumes Leila El Alaoui | music Reda Senhaji (Cheb Runner) | lighting design Luc Schaltin | sound engineering Arthur De Vuyst | assistant director Emma Verstraete | production manager Lena Meijer | business manager Juul Spoor | photo image Studio Pramudiya | graphic design Lejla Vala Verheus | production Stichting K.E.K.A., Productiehuis Ouroboros, Kaaitheater | co-production DE SINGEL, De Brakke Grond, SPRING Festival, Kunstenwerkplaats vzw, kunstencentrum BUDA, Het Nationale Theater