Adapted from ‘IN THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE’ by Mahmoud Darwish

In the Presence of Absence (Fī Hadrat al-Ghiyāb) was published in the original Arabic in 2006. As with every work Darwish published in the last four decades, its appearance in the Arab world was an event. Darwish was the most popular and prominent Arab poet and had become a major world poet. He died two years after writing this book. Thinking this might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous text that defies categorization.

Dr. Bhatkar’s new work based on Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘In Presence of Absence` is a sublime experience that takes the audience into a unique hybrid world of verse and prose, shadowed by mortality, an oneiric journey of exile, return and the delicate sensations of “life through a visually enthralling physical theatre”

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