The Return of Lilith: book cover

The presentation starts with seven black-robed figures standing in a circle, all waiting for Lilith, the mythological first woman. They are the lover, the husband, the father, the son, the brother, the teacher, the friend. They speak of her inattainability, of her wonder and intimate secrets, of their craving for her. She is seven women in one. They wait for her.

From the figures on stage, we learn all about Lilith. She lives in the wild. In old rotting castles with cracking walls and wild growth, with beasts and hyenas. She is the object of desire of all men and home for all contradictions: arrogant and humble, past and future, naked but unseen, with stabs softer than caresses. She is a giver of dreams, a forest, with long tresses and a smile, the sweet slumber after the sensual storm. Her charm is never undone. She has no house and no pillow.