BINAZEER
Binazeer is an interdisciplinary performance making use of dance, music, video and sound installations and taking references from war and contemporary everyday life.
A group of performers speak the words of one civilian casualty. The performance looks at the complexity of PTSD, exploring visual ways of demonstrating its emergence whilst at the same time challenging its conceptual and clinical restrictions. It combines themes of memory, medicalisation, the therapeutic encounter, and love. Using both Western and Iranian music, Binazeer is an explosion of contradictions where missiles and chocolate, Billy Jean and blisters share real and imaginary spaces.
Adapted for Stage by Mehrdad Seyf from two stories written by Orkideh Behrouzan “The War We Lived” and “Binazeer”
Production Team:
Director: Mehrdad Seyf
Set Designer: Carlos Moral Reis
Lighting Design: Steven Owens
Costume Design: Mila Sanders
Sound Design: Lewis Hinkley-Keens
Music Director: Ella Bellsz
Movement Director: Steffany George
Graphic Design and Video: Alexander O’Connell
Assistant Directors: Lara Costello, Michaela Gasteratou, Rele Molapo, Becka Eden Philpot.
Cast:
Yasmin Ahasanullah, Christian Anstee, Fiona Beverley, Bethany-Ann Carter, Robin Clarke, Lara Costello, Emi del Bene, Rosie Dunjay, Michaela Gasteratou, Lewis Hinckley-Keens, Ryan McLachlan, Declan McLaughlin, Alice Middleton, Mpho Molapo, Ciara Molloy, Rebecca Philpot, Steffi-Jo Skinner, Louise Ubbels, Jasmin Weston, Tiina Winter