Maya Zbib is a theatre director, performer, writer, and the co-founder of Zoukak Theatre Company. Her work has been shown in the Middle East, Europe, the US, Africa, and South Asia, where she has taught theatre in various contexts. She’s been commissioned to create work for NYUAD’s Performing Arts Centre, LIFT Festival, and The Royal Court Theatre, among others. In 2011 she was selected as the protégée of Peter Sellars within the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
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Specters of the Enemy Within
As residents of Upstate New York we are marked by the fraught specters of the border and enemy within. Trump’s antagonistic struggle with neighboring Canada, 170 miles north, summons the complexity of the disturbing phantoms haunting the land on which we live. From New York to Canada, the fraught apparitions of the rent promises of history arise at every crossing.
Specters of the Enemy Within : Gloss
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It is raw, it is real, it is happening with you in the room and can only be experienced in the “here and now.” It is open to a multiplicity of heres and nows depending on the realities, perceptions, localities... of those present.