Winner of the Total Theatre Award for Innovation, 2011
Winner of the Arches Brick Award, 2011
“Tania El Khoury is a gifted young Lebanese performance artist based in the UK. This tantalising solo gives one man at a time the power to decide what she’ll do and how she will do it. Led to a ‘secret’ yet public location we speak to her via headset a series of instructions, which she then obeys. With its built-in unpredictability this special piece is loaded with provocative political implications and just a trace of lost romance.”
**** Donald Hutera, The List
Tania El Khoury’s multi-award winning “Maybe if you choreograph me you will feel better” is a relationship between one male audience member and one female performer. The audience member stares out a second story window and hears a female voice. She tells him to look out into the street. Somewhere, among the dozens of passersbys, he will find a woman who will obey his every move.
Using wireless headphones, Tania creates a deceptively simple piece about gender dynamics, voyeurism and cinema.
Sound and Music by Laura Whitticase.
**** “A thought-provoking half-hour which has deep political resonances, and says much about who may or may not hold the balance of power.” The Herald
Commissioned and developed at BAC
More about the show
The Guardian
PREVIOUS SHOWS
One on One Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, April 2011
Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival, August 2011
UPCOMING SHOWS
Transqwartier Wien, Vienna, December 2011
Culturgest, Lisbon, February 2012
The Arches, Glasgow, April 2012
Photos by Carolina Costa and Ibrahim Fakhri
PREVIOUS SHOWS
One on One Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, April 2011
Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival, August 2011
UPCOMING SHOWS
Transqwartier Wien, Vienna, December 2011
Culturgest, Lisbon, February 2012
The Arches, Glasgow, April 2012
Photos by Carolina Costa and Ibrahim Fakhri
