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To the Right the Knife: theatre
Show · Monday, November 23 · 20:00 · Paris
Théâtre Ouvert, 159 Avenue Gambetta
To the Right the Knife is the portrait of the peripheral district of a small French town between 1989 and 2001 through the reunions of two sisters. As the echoes of wars hover over the life and imagination of the neighborhood’s inhabitants, the shared experience of two sisters unfolds, as do their differing lives. Each is accompanied by a tutelary figure who appears the moment reality strikes. Majda, the elder who stays in the neighborhood until her death, is accompanied by Rabia Al Adawiya, Iraqi poet and great Sufi mystic of the 8th century. Etel Adnan, p…
