Bushra El Turk: Women Make Music

Metta Theatre is an award-winning and critically acclaimed London based theatre company, founded in 2005 by Director Poppy Burton-Morgan and Designer William Reynolds. We produce work on a small and mid-scale across the UK – working both in traditional performance spaces and site-responsively. Since 2006 we have produced 20 productions at venues including Southbank Centre, Oxford Playhouse, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, V&A Museum, Shunt, Greenwich Theatre, Bush Theatre, Jacksons Lane, Southwark Playhouse & the Arcola Theatre.

We make beautiful, imaginative and compelling theatre and opera, using all the story-telling tools at our disposal, including words, music, projection, puppetry and circus. We’re all about creating meta-theatrical works – telling stories that include the audience in the act of telling.

Our PRSF award allowed us to commission brilliant young Lebanese composer Bushra El Turk to compose an original score for our forthcoming production ‘Arab Nights’ – six short plays responding to the Arab Revolutions by writers from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria – opening at the Soho Theatre (November 21st- December 1st 2012) followed by a short UK tour. She is composing a fusion of classical Arabic and contemporary Western music to create a rich and evocative sound-world.