Berenice

<p></p><p>Berenice is an academically rigorous poetically sensitive and politically hard-hitting translation of Jean Racine's celebrated 17th century tragedy.</p><p>An adapted version of her text with movement was first staged in 2018 in a co-production between Theatre Forge and Exchange Theatre as part of Voila! Europe theatre festival under the title Becoming Berenice with original drum and bass music by Tomas Wolstenholme to sold-out audiences.</p><p>Unusually retaining the original French structure of rhyming 12-beat couplets or Alexandrines this modern English version seeks to highlight the Western colonial expansion in the Middle-East against which the story plays out and of which we are arguably reaping the ever more violent repercussions.</p><p>This tale of one woman's emancipation in the face of star-crossed love is the first English translation of this European classic by a woman and a person of Middle-Eastern descent.</p><p></p>