EVE

A Dramatic Work-in-Progress

July 13, 2024

Written by George Abraham & Fargo Tbakhi

Directed by Sami Ismat

Performed at 150 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 3rd Floor, Randolph Room

EVE was a collaborative performance project that
deconstructs John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the biblical
Adam & Eve story through the lens of Palestinian liberation.
Using movement, poetry, and song, EVE queers, disrupts,
re-imagines, and stitches together multiple timelines: from
Milton’s life to the existential and lonely spaces of the
Palestinian diaspora. At a juncture where Ars Poetica meets
myth, EVE links seemingly disparate histories to a more
hopeful and vibrant sense of future and homeland.

EVE was a co-commission of the Arab American National
Museum, Mizna, and Silk Road Cultural Center, with
support from the National Performance Network.

This workshop was supported in part by the National
Endowment for the Arts.

Program Book