From the back of a rehearsal studio a couple weeks before ‘Roses Rising – The Dinner’ premieres at HAU, I watch as one of Leila Hekmat’s cast languishes on a chaise longue centred on the studio’s impromptu stage. Eyes glazed, gazing vacantly at the ceiling, she philosophizes: “who am I?” The scene feels full of both melodrama and parody, a tone that runs through Hekmat’s recent work.
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