Residencies

• 19.01 > 24.01.2026

Women reclaim power in this sacred spa­ce of rage and grief.

For her immersi­ve the­a­tre per­for­man­ce SHRINE, Khadija El Kharraz Alami draws inspi­ra­ti­on both from the work of femi­nist acti­vist Silvia Federici, and from Alceste in Molière’s Le Misanthrope. Here, Alceste is the daugh­ter of a mother, a woman who was bru­tal­ly mur­de­red by the sys­tems in power. Alceste has been figh­ting in vain for years for a fair tri­al, but her frus­tra­ti­on and sad­ness radi­ca­li­se her. The injus­ti­ce that has taken root in her body trans­forms into fury, empo­we­ring her to cre­a­te cha­os and dis­rupt the eco­no­my. She beco­mes an inspi­ra­ti­on for women all over the world. They find sola­ce in their sanc­tu­a­ry, their ​‘shri­ne’, whe­re they remem­ber, pray, sing, make offe­rings, and cele­bra­te.

El Kharraz Alami once again demon­stra­tes how she can trans­la­te essay­is­tic work into acti­on, how she finds forms that ren­der the role of the mar­gi­na­li­sed woman in our socie­ties tan­gi­ble. In SHRINE, using cri­ti­cal fabu­la­ti­on, she spe­cu­la­tes on a pos­si­ble futu­re in the here and now. By embo­dying Alceste as a woman and focu­sing on her per­spec­ti­ve, she asks which era­sed roles of women in soci­e­ty we can resur­rect. And which buried cries will be heard.