The Music Box
“In the box are unforgettable things, unforgettable for us, but also unforgettable for those to whom we give our treasures. The past, the present and a future are condensed here. And so the box is the memory of the immemorial.”
Gaston Bachelard
Overview
The Music Box is a solo performance about homes, usually performed in people’s homes. Through a series of collected and imagined stories narrating incidents, habits, practices, truths and possible truths about women, and what ties them to their homes, the performance travels in the house form the basement to the attic, throughout the various facets of the house and its dual nature of shelter/prison, in an attempt to touch upon a common dimension of intimacy, by disentangling the “poetics” of the home…The home as a wide and narrow vessel, as a complicated universe, as a labyrinth, as a hole… the home as a box.
INFO | CREDITS
Production Year: 2008
Production Language: Arabic / English
Production Duration: 60 mins
Director(s): Maya Zbib Co-Artistic Director and Theatre Maker
Writer(s): Maya Zbib Co-Artistic Director and Theatre Maker
Devised by: Maya Zbib Co-Artistic Director and Theatre Maker
Poster Designer: Maya Chami
Created, Written and Performed by: Maya Zbib
Acting director: Omar Abi Azar
Produced by: Zoukak
Supported by: AFAC
The text of the performance was published in Beirut in 2010 by Al Bissan publishing house and a translated excerpt of it was read on Radio Grenouille in Marseille by La Réplique theater collective.
PAST PERFORMANCES
September 2008
FIRST PERFORMANCE IN ARABIC with 13 perfrmances in 5 different houses
Beirut, Lebanon
May 2010
PERFORMANCE at hakaya festival
Jordan
July 2011
Performance in French with an invitaiton by Tamam Association at the avignon festival ‘off’
Several locations, France
August 2011
PERFORMANCE at abeydieh village
Mount Lebanon, Lebanon
November 2011
PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH at the New York public library as part of the rolex arts weekend
New York, US
January 2012
Performance within carthage theatre days
Tunis, Tunisia
July 2012
Performance at the fundamental Monodrama Festival and au quai art space
Luxemburg and Brussels
