(Photo: Part of promotional material for Khatty El-Attaba storytelling show)
The storytelling troupe Doum Haky will present Khatty El-Attaba (Pass the Doorsill) at Cairo's French Institute on 4 and 5 July.
Khatty El-Attaba includes eight stories recounted by eight storytellers. The characters are in reality strangers who are led by chance to experience life with other characters who are very different from them.
The storytelling performance weaves multiple tales, and we see a poet meeting a government employee, a dancer interacting with a dreamy engineer, and many other characters including a taxi driver, a business woman, and a police officer each telling their own tale as new stories emerge upon their interactions.
The Doum Haky group was founded after the conclusion of Seshat, a writing workshop which was led by writer Sahar El-Mougy and organised by the non-profit Doum Cultural Foundation.
Launched in 2012, Seshat is one of Doum’s projects that aims to revive humanity’s oldest art form of storytelling.
In 2014, Seshat developed to offer small interactive performances.
Khatty EL-Attaba is the group’s third performance, after their first titled Ping Pong was performed at Beyt El-Sinnary in December 2015, followed by Le Waqt ‘Oza (equivalent to “For a Rainy Day”) in May 2015, where the experimental performances tackled their daily rituals, experiences and feelings, and were intertwined with many questions.
Programme:
Monday 4 July and Tuesday 5 July, at 8.30pm
French Institute, 1 Madraset Al Hoqouq, Mounira, Cairo
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