Two women meet in prison: Fatma, a women’s rights activist who was sentenced for murder and Sama, a young, ambitious documentary film maker who wants to tell Fatma’s story. They share memories, experiences, deepest secrets. What does it mean to be free? Is it possible to have greater freedom in prison than outside? Woman at Point Zero is an enthralling multi-media opera about exploitation, emancipation and the perpetual search for freedom, inspired by the novel of the same name by Egyptian writer and feminist Nawal El Saadawi. Combining poetry, documentary evidence and cross-genre music that merges Western and Eastern music traditions, the opera raises a powerful voice of feminism – composed by Bushra El-Turk, member of the Academy Second Modernism.
