A breathtaking game between a detective and a terrorist about to be executed

Suffocating tension that can even cause claustrophobia. A dangerous conversation between two men begins with a horrible terrorist incident occurred at a museum.

What is terrorism? How can we define it? Palestinian director Bashar Murkus seeks to find an answer to this very question, which led to the idea for the piece ‘THE MUSEUM’. To this end, attempts were made to deconstruct the term terrorism, and terms such as radicalism, extremism, and violence were derived. He finds a clear dilemma at this point. ‘THE MUSEUM’ dissects the origins of violence, the indescribable the ‘banality of evil’, and the similarities between individual and organized terrorism. He calls for a shift in perspective to focus on the meaning of our actions, the (im)moral imperatives that oppress us, and the reasons for trying to break away from them. After premiering in Haifa in 2019, it was performed at the Festival d’Avignon(France, 2021) and Nuderzon Performing Arts Festival(Netherlands, 2021) etc.

There is a terrorist attack on a contemporary art museum. Forty-nine children and a teacher were killed and the man who committed the attack was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
His original plan, to be killed by the police inside the museum, has failed. He was arrested, interrogated, and sentenced to death. For the execution to be carried out, he had to wait for seven years. A week before the execution, he insists on meeting the detective who investigated his case. He convinces him to be the last person he meets and to join him for his last supper.
At the final evening the two men meet alone in a locked room in the building where the capital punishment will be carried out. This is how an unsettling and destructive conversational battle begins. The moment when the two meet the audience, they begin a dangerous and cunning game to explore the meaning of death they desire.