Skip NavigationMenu

Shubbak: Working Method | نظرية اشتغال مسرحي

Working method new website banner

Can art really save the world?

Enkidu Khaled fled Baghdad in 2008. His award-winning show is a unique form of creative exchange. Based on traumatic events he witnessed years back, he invites the audience to join him in analysing and simplifying the complex process of making theatre from personal experience. In four easy steps he creates a new performance every night, showing how memory, association and tiny fragment of ideas can become a story and how simple decisions can have devastating effect. The name Enkidu means ‘reason’: his method is trying to make sense.

Part lecture, part performance, part workshop, Working Method moves seamlessly from the lightest conversation to emotional punch. Engaging honest, it questions how life and theatre interact.

Enkidu Khaled studied theatre in Baghdad, before settling and working in Belgium.

Find out more about Working Method, read the interview with Enkidu Khaled.

Why not double up your evening? On 11 July, some of the most exciting Arab/British artists making work right now will join us for a Gate Late to discuss what it means to make work in Europe as an Arab artist in these 'interesting' times. Find out more: Shubbak: Writing in Europe: experiences, opportunities and risks.

Image: Bas de Brouwer.

 

Please note: the show contains references to war and some language and images that people may find distressing and disturbing.

Get Tickets

Thursday 11 July - 7pm

Friday 12 July - 7pm

Saturday 13 July - 7pm

running time: 90 minutes

In English

Cast & CREATIVES

Loading...
Enkidu khaled
Enkidu Khaled
Enkidu Khaled (born in Baghdad, 1985) is a theatre maker and performer. He studied theatre until 2007 in the Institute of Fine Arts of Baghdad and began working in cinema. He has contributed in several feature and documentary films such as "War Love God & Madness" and "Dreams" by Mohamed Al -Daradji. In 2008 he had to flee Iraq because of the emerging war. Later settling in Belgium, Khaled created several internationally recognized theatre productions including “Crash”, "Kid Nap", "12 Isolations" and “Dreams of Environment”. In 2016, his solo performance “Working Method” won the “Big in Belgium” Award and was presented at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2017, he graduated from DAS Master of Theatre in Amsterdam. His last performance was a documentary theater piece "Baghdad" presented more than 20 times in Holland, Belgium and international festivals. For this work he got awarded with the Best Acting Performance at the MESS International Theater Festival Sarajevo in 2018.
Read Bio
Loading...

This is a must-see piece of theatre for those who are interested in both the creative process and in the meaning behind making art in the first place.
Broadway Baby
Enkidu Khaled powerfully transcends the dilemma and the self-involvement typical of most one-man-shows.
Al Arte Magazine (Belgium)

Platform 0090 & Richard Jordan Productions in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth, Big in Belgium, STORMOPKOMST, de Brakke Gond icw deBuren, C-TAKT and RBC. Presented with additional support from British Council.

Join the conversation

Loading...

Can art really save the world?

Enkidu Khaled fled Baghdad in 2008. His award-winning show is a unique form of creative exchange. Based on traumatic events he witnessed years back, he invites the audience to join him in analysing and simplifying the complex process of making theatre from personal experience. In four easy steps he creates a new performance every night, showing how memory, association and tiny fragment of ideas can become a story and how simple decisions can have devastating effect. The name Enkidu means ‘reason’: his method is trying to make sense.

Part lecture, part performance, part workshop, Working Method moves seamlessly from the lightest conversation to emotional punch. Engaging honest, it questions how life and theatre interact.

Enkidu Khaled studied theatre in Baghdad, before settling and working in Belgium.

Find out more about Working Method, read the interview with Enkidu Khaled.

Why not double up your evening? On 11 July, some of the most exciting Arab/British artists making work right now will join us for a Gate Late to discuss what it means to make work in Europe as an Arab artist in these ‘interesting’ times. Find out more: Shubbak: Writing in Europe: experiences, opportunities and risks.

Image: Bas de Brouwer.

 

The Gate Theatre Company is a company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales No. 1495543 – Charity No. 280278