Show Me Edgware Road
Show Me Edgware Road led by Rajha Shakiry
Rich Mix, London, 2015
Lead artist: Rajha Shakiry
Collaborator: Mojisola Adebayo
Lighting: Katharine Williams
Film maker: Maria Tzika
Workshops: Arti Prashar
Divisors and performers: Houda Achoufani, Alia Alzougbi , Suzanna Nour and Umama Hamido
Film monologue text and voice over: Badia Obaid
Photography: Marian Alonso
Show Me Edgware Road – An R&D exploration into the realities of exile as experienced by Arabic women. Based on workshops held with Middle Eastern women, a filmed promenade performance of over 20 women in abayas (the black traditional Iraqi women’s covering) and a devised process working with 4 leading Middle Eastern performers.
A mother and daughter are forced to flee their homeland. Over a period of 30 years, it’s a glimpse into female exile, the shifting relationships between themselves, their ancestral home and the country they now call home.
