We are delighted to be funding Tilka, a theatre production by Seenaryo, premiered in Beirut and coming soon to a screen in London at a major arts space.

As an expert in the performing arts, Seenaryo develops imaginative and challenging performances, working with vulnerable communities in Lebanon and Jordan and in particular refugees and host communities.

About the show:

Tilka, “Those (f)”, a definite article with no English equivalent,

a cipher for all the adjectives associated with the feminine

plural. If we were to remove those adjectives, what would

remain? Would they (f) be free of those preconceptions, or

constrained by the force of grammar even in their absence?

When we decide to leave, we race towards the life we think we

want, to find ourselves buffeted by the same shocks, the same

particles constituting the feminine plural. Sometimes, one

gesture, one blink of an eye, one breath can be a longed-for

invitation. But to what? To nurture, warmth, cooperation,

tenderness? Or to something else entirely?

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane

by those who could not hear the music” – Friedrich Nietszche