
HAIDAR
by Jotdown Productions
Music and sound design - Adam Paroussos
6-7th April 2018
Memorial Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
12th May 2017
Platform Theatre, London
A coming of age story told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy growing up in a war-torn context, Haidar is composed around the on-stage creation and destruction of a large metal sculpture. Told in a palindromic framework, the show reverses at a midpoint to explore the same sequence of events through the eyes of Haidar’s female friend, Radiah.
Pendulums mirror the palindrome. Back and forth, back and forth. A suspension in time, space, and mentality. History will always repeat itself, never truly progressing.Our sculpture resembles a boat. Being suspended with a false sense of security. Pushing forward with such strength, only to be taken backwards with the same momentum. Being oppressed within a social and political structural system. Our sculpture symbolises the transition from boy to man, girl to woman. From home to isolation.