‘LILIT’ is a myth we are making to deal with darkness.

‘LILIT’ is the floor of the theatre being painted under your feet...

Nominated for the After Dark Award at VAULT Festival 2023

LILIT is a multi-disciplinary performance following Lilit, a darkness-dwelling mythic figure tied to the Jewish diaspora who flew away from Paradise rather than be subservient to Adam. In our reimagining, Lilit's immortal presence is (re)animated across space and time. 

Ancient Demoness. Modern day Diva. Bringer of judgement who wields a flaming sword. In these many forms they navigate a string of waste places: clawing for change in the acid light of an U-Bahn platform, singing Polish tango in a Weimar-era club, slumping over a table as their landlady sweeps and entrails thaw in the icebox, conducting self-surgery in the back of a scab-red Nissan Micra. Invoking Lilit in these spaces, we work within a cabaret tradition to interrogate the myths and images projected onto female-assigned figures, holding a filthy mirror to the 'Goddess Complex'.

Combining cabaret forms of lip-sync, drag, subversion and song with practices including live translation, video, physical performance and spoken word, LILIT engages with themes of freedom from persecution, the destructive irony of heteropatriarchy, and the importance of legacy and folklore. 

All spoken through the throat of an immortal, queer, Jewish demon.

Following work-in-progress sharings at VAULT Festival, GlogauAIR Berlin, Tramshed GENERATOR Cabaret and PURE IMAGINATION Dalston

LILIT is currently in development.