Name: MAGIC MAIDS
Start: 2024-01-20T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2024-01-20T19:00:00+05:30
Location: BMICH Kamatha Open Theatre

MAGIC MAIDS

Colomboscope

Work-in-progress Performance by Venuri Perera and Eisa Jocson

BMICH Kamatha Open Theatre

Way of the Forest

Way of the Forest is shaped with over 40 Sri Lankan and international artists and collectives. Interwoven with interdisciplinary programmes (Mushroomings) ranging from conversations, excursions, performances, workshops and an open air cinema.

<p>Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera come from countries known for exporting domestic workers. The work in progress performance, Magic Maids delves into European history of witch hunts and their direct consequences to the exploitation of women’s labour, particularly domestic labour in the Global South, as well as narratives around persecution of migrant workers today. In ‘Magic Maids’, the broom is an axis that bridges the European witch hunts and domestic labour through rituals of cleansing. The act of sweeping becomes a portal for myriad physical metamorphosis that manifests the historical and ongoing subjugation of migrant women workers. They also delve into how spell casting, gossip, laughter, and exorcism produce agency within exploitative settings.</p>

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