Baalat and her Double, a Lecture Epic in Three Acts
Betina Abi Habib presents a Lecture Performance as a Theatrical style. She combines methods of lecturing with Brechtian methods of Distancing and Artaudian fascination with Ritual. In collaboration with Elsa Van der Linden, Per Vissers, and Krystel Abi Habib, Betina performs an adaptation of her own written text entitled Baalat and Her Double. Is it a play? A lecture? An Epic? A ritual? The work questions the boundaries of these forms in a time when the place of Theatre is ambiguous and in flux.
