Mokhallad Rasem | Monty | Iraq, Belgium


A surreal show about war and its victims
Two lovely European women and three "authentic" Iraqi men invite the war onto the stage. The women want to comprehend and the men want to report on the three wars that have shaped their lives. But can you put war on the stage? The five performers are absolutely determined to do so. They play, sing and dance to the point of exhaustion. They flirt, argue and talk, yet often do not understand one another. With great playfulness they zap through a rapid sequence of scenes, associate disturbing and surreal situations with kitschy film clips, allow honest eye-witness reports to tip over into the comical and allow the everyday to degenerate into disaster. A perfume bottle appears as a hand grenade, a tray produces a volley of gunfire. Everything is ambiguous, because war does not allow any continuity and destroys all that could hitherto be relied upon. Irakese Geesten celebrates the surreal as the only possible representation of war. With biting humour they satirise the common strategies used to depict war, with their feigned understanding and their misappropriation of the horrors for their own dramatic gain. Who will win the Oscar for the best victim performance?

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Direction Mokhallad Rasem With Mokhallad Rasem, Ahmed Khaled, Duraid Abbas, Julia Clever, Sarah Eisa Tour management Sofie Van den Bulcke Produced by Monty, Jamaa El Irakya
Supported by the Goethe Institut