Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant

A theatrical re-imagining of the death of Cleopatra, the life of famed Egyptian actress Fatma Rushdie who played her, and the 1927 play by Ahmad Shawqi that dramatized her demise. This play bends the notions of time, gender, and genre to wrestle with history and its reconstructions. Join us in the present, Cairo in the 1920s, and ancient Egypt all at once for a poetic reckoning of the positionality of women and queer identities in Arab culture. Let’s see what remains, what repeats, what we break free from, and finally, what we create instead.

 Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by the Arab American National Museum and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.

Additional funding for Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant is generously provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Michigan Humanities