Placed on an elaborate scenic set, the actors (multiple taxidermy animals) use lyrical folk songs in the form of a cacophonous rock musical to tell their story. Much like they are seen in the displays of natural history museums, a drama unfolds through the animals’ silent bodies by simply hinting a voice or action is generated by them. In this way, the animals’ gratuitous ‘death on display’ is erased through the illustration of life.

Avant-garde rock musician Alan Bishop lends his voice to the performance, helping to resurrect these animals from an unknown past, as they chronicle their fatal journey, speaking from a dimension beyond the one we know. As the creator Raed Yassin writes, “Removed from their natural habitat and displaced into an urban landscape somewhere by the sea, their appearance in this way somehow predicts the current dark moment of our times.”