In Ancient Sumeria, a woman’s desire for sexual sovereignty and
radical vision of civic plurality draws the anger and outrage of
the male status quo and unleashes catastrophe onto her city and her
body. The seminal Lamentation for the Destruction of the City of Ur
is the first poem written for a civic entity -- a city -- in the
history of mankind. Writing scenes across multiple timelines that
stretch from 2000 BC, to the European Imperialist fantasies of the
late 19th Century, to the ISIS destruction of Palmyra in 2015, to a
distorted Utopian vision of the future, Al Bassam’s play is a
riot of imagination and poetic archaeology, exploring themes of
iconoclasm, civic space and feminine apotheosis. UR evokes the
utopia and destruction of one of humanity's oldest cities, and is
played by an ensemble composed of four Arabic actors working
alongside four members of the Residenztheater ensemble.
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